The Office of Management and Budget recently issued a memo directing federal agencies to stop all grants and loans. The OMB wanted to review them and ensure they were in compliance with new executive orders issued by President Donald Trump.
The backlash against the memo was swift and strong. Of course, liberal groups objected, in part because the memo would have frozen funding to some of their pet projects, including the funding of abortion and LGBTQ+ advocacy.
But the outcry was not just from progressives. A number of Christian groups, some of them relatively conservative, also objected. World Relief, the benevolence arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, said the freeze would hamper their refugee resettlement efforts.
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