This would be 'devastating': California sues to stop Trump's chaos-inducing federal funding freeze

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : “It appears that the president and his team are backing off or backtracking as it relates to their intent to have done that, in a way that will impact the support being provided to the roughly 15 million people that rely on Medicaid.
48% : Since taking office just more than a week ago, President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of edicts to remake federal policy and governance.
46% : Meanwhile, some states began immediately reporting problems accessing funds from Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income people, even though the freeze was not supposed to affect this program, according to the Washington Post.
44% : Programs listed include those that provide aid for disaster victims, housing for low-income resident and farm workers, foreign aid, air and water pollution monitoring and early childhood education.
44% : Some early childhood educators funded through the federal Head Start program and federally-funded medical researchers have reported being unable to access their payments, according to the New York Times.
44% : “In California the scale of these impacts is unimaginable,” said Andrew Cheyne, managing director of public policy for the advocacy group GRACE/End Child Poverty in California.
42% : The White House held a press briefing earlier today to emphasize that this was simply a temporary pause on spending and that individual financial assistance programs like Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, Pell Grants and rental assistance would not be affected by the order.

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