Trump's spending freeze circus won't affect your health coverage or student loans -- probably

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "Spending for programs such as Medicaid and SNAP, as well as supports like Head Start, rental assistance, and Pell Grants would also continue, it added.
49% : After ostensibly ordering federal agencies to freeze vast swaths of government spending, the White House partially walked back its move in the afternoon, claiming it had only meant to pause a more narrow set of operations for review.
47% : "The memo did state in a footnote that Medicare, Social Security, and "assistance received directly by individuals" would not be affected.
45% : By the afternoon, the White House had issued a clarification, in the form of a Q&A, stating that officials were not ordering an "across the board" pause on federal assistance and that the freeze would be "expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President's Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.
44% : At the same time, some spending for programs such as Medicaid and Head Start appeared to be at least temporarily clogged, as lawmakers, state officials, and reporters scrambled to understand what exactly was going on.
44% : Critically, it did not include a list of specific programs to halt, leading to widespread questions about whether schemes like Medicaid, federal student lending, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program were about to be put on ice -- since all of them fit the technical definition of "federal assistance.

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