When she fell on a beating of marble size in 2023, she ravaged Camp Hill, a city of 1,000, where almost half of the inhabitants live below the poverty limit. The decks were demolished, cars broken, destroyed roofs, and few people had insurance.
The community was expected to receive assistance this month in the form of federal support of $ 20 million to help homeowners to execute repairs-Novac who came from an era law to fight climate change.
But these funds were now held by the command of President Trump to stop the Sava of Federal Climate Consumption. Although the White House is this week abolished the mention of the directive This would stop the billions of dollars in grants throughout the Government and a separate executive command It is still in force that stops tens of billions of dollars of energy and environmental consumption.
This break paralyzes the federal agencies, causing confusion in countries and cities, delaying construction projects and forcing some companies to workers.
“These are real human beings,” said Warren Tidwell, director of the organization center and system solutions in Alabama, which leads efforts to repair many damaged Camp Hill roofs. “We have one woman in the 80s who lives on her own, and if she does not repair her roof, we will have a good time in the late 80s who is homeless,” said Mr. Tidwell.
The day he swore, Mr. Trump betrayed Executive command About the “abolition of Green New Deal”, his Cathall expression for climate policy. The White House told federal agencies to stop and inspect all the funds approved by the Law on Reducing Inflation and the Duplicate Law on Infrastructure – two laws signed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. which invested hundreds of billions of dollars in winds and solar projects, Electric vehicles and other low carbon energy technologies.
Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department Accepted by stopping grants, loans and other consumption.
The break affected the wide range of programs.
States are blocked from receiving funds from A $ 7 billion program to help low -income communities in installing solar plates. The school districts in Virginia, New York and Rural Nevada are not sure if they will arrive to arrive electric school buses for which they have signed contracts. Luke in South Carolina and Tampa, Florida, received almost two million dollars a piece to clean the pollution, a means that could now be frozen. Battery companies that have received federal scholarships to build factories do not know when they could be paid.
White house officials refused to comment on the record.
Although Democrats have passed the Law on Inflation of Inflation, 80 percent of the law investment so far has gone to the Republican Congress district. So far, many Republicans have refrained from criticizing the freezing of consumption. They are Democrats By pressing the answers agencies and demanding legal justification For the action.
“It was chaotic and confusing,” said Maren Mahoney, director of the Arizona Governor’s resistance office. Last year, the state received a $ 156 million grant via EPA to arrange 61 solar energy megawatts throughout the country, with an emphasis on low-income communities and tribal communities.
Mrs. Mahoney said she was just preparing for the first four employees when Mr Trump was open and her group could not access her money through the Government’s automated system. EPA calls have gone unwavering, Mrs. Mahoney said.
Jeff Landis, a spokesman for EPA, said the Agency implements Mr. Trump’s executive order.
This week in Washington, a company called Zero Emissionss Northwest, which helps rural communities to provide federal scholarships to save energy costs, I had to deal with Three employees after the government stopped compensation.
David Funk, president of the company, said that farmers and owners of companies with which he cooperated currently had $ 1.9 million in construction projects after applying for the Energy For American village program. Participants often fall into their own savings or borrow money to do things like isolating their buildings, upgrading of pizza ovens or installing solar panels to make up for irrigation costs. Then they expect that the Federal Government will honor their promise that they will bring them back for part of the cost.
But on Tuesday, when Mr. Funk went to submit invoices for his clients, the Ministry of Agriculture said that he had stopped. His clients currently owe at least $ 250,000, he said.
“Farmers lose money daily,” Mr. Funk said in an interview. He added that the program “progressed the goals of the new administration – we are working to reduce operational costs, generate energy and buy US products locally.”
Normally, the new administration briefly slows down agencies while setting up its priorities. “What is different is the scope and depth of these executive orders,” said Emily Hammond, a professor of right at George Washington University, who was previously a deputy chief environmental advisor and litigation in the energy department.
For example, the EPA internal Memorandum orders stopping the payment funds for which the Government has already signed a money delivery agreement. This means that the government could sue if it violates its obligations.
Friday is a federal judge ordered Trump’s administration to stop blocking federal funding on 22 countries for all congress authorized programs. The rest is unclear whether or when agencies can continue consumption.
According to the Administration of Biden, the Ministry of Energy awarded tens of billions of dollars of grants and loans to companies that upgraded laptops, built batteries factories, reviving a closed nuclear plant and more. Some companies and performers say they started investing with the expectation that they would be compensated, but that they do not know now when it will be.
According to Mr. Trump’s executive order, agencies have 90 days to review outdated consumption, which can be moved forward only after the approval of key political officials. The White House says this will ensure that all consumption is reconciled to politics priorities.
Critics say the result could be paralysis. “If that sounds crazy inefficient, it’s because it is,” said Ryan Fitzpatrick, a senior director of domestic policy on the third path, a left -wing research center. “This process could take months. We are talking about thousands of contracts and hundreds of thousands of jobs delayed and perhaps canceled.”
Some experts took care of the effects of long -term uncertainty. Ever since the Law on Inflation Law was passed, the companies have announced plans to invest more than $ 167 billion in the US Factory to build solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and other pure energy technologies, According to data from Atlas Public Policy, Research Company. In addition to tax reliefs, some of these factories received federal loans or scholarships.
“We are in the middle of a very significant investment cycle,” said Mike Carr, the coalition director for solar energy producers for America. “But there is a risk of losing that momentum if uncertainty is introduced.”
Other federal climatic supports go to poor or rural areas.
Representative Jennifer McClellan, Democrat of Virginia, said that the Henrico District Public School System is still waiting to listen to a $ 1.3 million in electric school buses that EPA approved during the Biden administration.
And in Central Illinois, a coalition of 13 rural school districts that won support for energy energy of $ 15 million to install a micro network and buy at least one electric school bus is now worried that the fourth will not have new equipment another year if ever.
“We were simply ghosts,” said Tim Farquer, supervisor of the Mercer County District of Illinois, who runs the program.
