The White House has frozen federal grants and loans.

And tonight there is disagreement about and confusion about who's affected.

The Budget Office memo says federal agencies must, quote, temporarily PAULS All activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.

Today, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt talked about who's affected and who isn't.

This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration.

Individual assistance that includes I'm not naming everything that's included.

But just to give you a few examples.

Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.

So what does this pause mean?

It means no more funding for illegal D-I programs.

It means no more funding for the Green New scam that has cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

It means no more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.

No more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies.

But the Associated Press is reporting Head Start funding frozen in Michigan and 20 states unable to access Medicaid reimbursement systems.

Democrats in Kentucky and across the nation are blasting the move, saying it could hurt millions of people.

State Senator Kasy Chambers Armstrong, a Democrat from Louisville, says she's worried about the impact on Kentucky's child care assistance program.

In a statement, she said, quote, Thousands of working families in Kentucky depend on this program to afford care for their children without child care.

These parents cannot go to work, which means they can't support their family and can't contribute to the workforce.

I have heard from people who are scared about what this order and what it means for their family.

End quote.

Appearing on CNBC this morning, Congressman Andy Barr, a Republican from Kentucky's sixth district, didn't talk about a funding freeze specifically, but did talk about the president's overall agenda.

Tax cuts will be part of this energy will be part of this increasing our national security so we can have peace through strength and yes, spending reform so that we can get our deficit under control and send that signal to the Treasury market that we're serious about bringing interest rates down because we're going to put our country back on a sound fiscal footing.

President Trump also ordered the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization, and his administration has ordered the CDC to stop working with the W.H.O.

immediately.

This morning, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear talked about that decision and what it could mean in the event of a future pandemic.

I'm thinking about and concerned about the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

You know, we've all been through a pandemic.

How we learn about those things going on throughout the world, the data that helps us to be prepared.

A lot of that comes through the W.H.O..

I just want to make sure we're safe and that we're already and that we know what's coming so that if we face anything like that ever again, we can make the right decisions.

The governor appeared on CNN also condemning President Trump's suggestion to dissolve FEMA as a bad idea.

Beshear says FEMA helped coordinate help from other states during Kentucky's floods in 2022.

And he says without FEMA, the states would have to pay more in administrative costs after a disaster.