'Reads like a hostage note': Trump order flagged as 'massive fraud' by ex-official
Raw StoryA former official in the government's Office of Management and Budget denounced a temporary pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government as "a massive fraud" carried out by its not-yet-confirmed director Russell Vought. Topher Spiro, who served as associate director of health care programs under former president Joe Biden, flagged the two-page document signed by the executive agency's acting director, Matthew Vaeth, as legally questionable and highly suspicious. "A sampling of funding potentially affected in health care: all opioid prevention funding, all mental health funding, funding for community health centers, suicide prevention and the suicide lifeline, HIV/AIDS treatment, grants to states to address avian flu." "In sum, Russ Vought is illegally carrying out his ideological agenda with greatest harm to the most vulnerable — including many in the working class and rural communities who voted for Trump," Spiro wrote.
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