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Trump issued a freeze on grants and loans. Here's what it means for your bottom line

Jan 28, 2025 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

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  • Politician Portrayal

    -51% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Experts warned that a wide range of activities, including nonprofits, food assistance, student loans and scientific research, could be impacted by this order.
50% : ""Congress approved these investments and they are not optional, they are the law," the New York Democrat said in a statement posted to X.This order will lead to "missed payrolls and rent payments and everything in between: chaos for everything from universities to non-profit charities, state disaster assistance, local law enforcement, aid to the elderly, and food for those in need," he continued.
47% : From pausing research on cures for childhood cancer to closing homeless shelters, halting food assistance, reducing safety from domestic violence, and shutting down suicide hotlines, the impact of even a short pause in funding could be devastating and cost lives," Yentel said in a post on X. "This order could decimate thousands of organizations and leave neighbors without the services they need.
46% : Outside of a few honorable mentions -- "financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal" -- the memo did not spell out which programs would be impacted.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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