When the marble size of marble fell to Alabama in 2023, almost half of the residents destroyed Camp Hill, a town of 1,000, living under the poverty. The deck was demolished, the car was crushed, the roof was destroyed, and few people have insurance.
The community hoped this month to provide support for housing owners in the form of $ 20 million federal subsidies to support repair. This is the money from the law of the Biden era to work on climate change.
However, these funds are currently supported by President Trump's order that all federal climate expenditures will be suspended. This week's White House has canceled a drastic order that would have stopped a trillion dollar subsidy throughout the Federal government, but another presidential order still stopped tens of millions of energy and environmental expenditures. It is valid.
This suspension has been forced to paralyze federal government agencies, cause the states and cities' confusion, delay construction projects, and drive away workers to some companies.
“These are real people,” said Warren Tidwell, the director of Alabama's rural organizations and systematic solution center. “We have one woman living alone in the 1980s. If she did not fix the roof, there would be a homeless senior in the late 1980s,” said Tidwell. Ta.
On the day he was swearing, Trump issued a presidential order, “Ends Green New Deal,” a term of his catch all for climate policy. The White House has ordered federal governments to pause all funds approved by the Inflation Reduction Act and the Boat Influis Law. Vehicles and other low -carbon energy technology.
Organizations, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Ministry of Energy, complied with the suspension of subsidies, loans, and other expenditures.
Pause has influenced a wide range of programs.
States have been hindering funds from $ 7 billion programs to support the installation of solar panels. The school district of Virginia, New York, and Nevada is unknown whether the contracted electrical school bus has arrived. South Carolina and the Port of Tampa, Florida were awarded nearly $ 2 million to clean pollution. Battery companies who have received the federal subsidy to build a factory do not know when they will be paid.
The White House official refused to comment on this record.
The Inflation Reduction Law was passed by the Democratic Party, but 80 % of the previous law investments have been to the Republican Parliament. However, so far, many Republican members have refrained from criticizing the freezing of expenditures. The Democratic Party has called for an answer from an institution and demands legal legitimacy for behavior.
“It was confusing as a mixed OTIC,” said Maren Mahony, the director of the governor of Arizona's ammunition. Last year, the state received $ 156 million subsidies through the EPA, expanded 61 -megawatto solar energy throughout the state, focusing on low -income and tribal communities.
Mahony said that Trump was appointed and she was trying to hire the first four when her group was unable to access the money through the government's automated system. 。 According to Mahoney, the call to the EPA was not returned.
Jeff Landis, a spokesman of the EPA, said that the institution was enriching Trump's presidential order.
This week, in Washington, a company called the zero emission Northwest supports the rural community to secure the federal subsidy to save energy costs, and the government has stopped refunds. I had to attack.
David Funk, the company's president, said that the farmers and business owners they worked with have signed up to rural energy for American programs and have $ 1.9 million in the construction project. I mentioned. Participants often borrow money to immerse themselves in their savings, isolated buildings, upgrade pizza ovens, install solar panels and offset irrigation costs. 。 They hope that the federal government will respect the promise of repayment of some costs.
However, on Tuesday, when Funk went to submit an invoice to the client, the Ministry of Agriculture said that the refund was paused. He said his client is currently underwriting at least $ 250,000.
“The farmers lose money every day,” Funk said in an interview. He added, “We are working to reduce operational costs, and we are working on the locals and buying American products.”
It is common to temporarily slow down the behavior of the agency while the new administration has set priorities. “The scope and depth of these presidential orders is the scope and depth of these presidential orders,” said Emily Hammond, a law professor at the University of George Wasington, formerly a deputy adviser in the energy sector. I did it.
For example, the internal EPA memo orders the government to pay for the funds that the government has already signed a contract. In other words, if you violate a commitment, the government may be sued.
On Friday, the Federal Judge ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking federal funds to all approved programs approved by Congress. It was unknown whether the agency would resume expenditure or when to resume expenditure.
Under the Biden administration, the Ministry of Energy has given tens of millions of dollars subsidies and loans to companies that have upgraded transmission lines, built battery factories, revived shuttered nuclear power plants, etc. 。 Some companies and contractors have begun investing in hopes that they will be refunded, but now they don't know when it will be.
Under Trump's presidential order, the agency can spend 90 days to consider paused spending and only after the approval from the major political authorities. The White House states that doing so guarantees that all expenditures match the priority of the policy.
Critics say the results can be paralyzed. “If it sounds very inefficient, that's right,” said Ryan Fitzpatrick, a senior director of Sardway, a think tank on the left of the center. “The process can take several months. We have talked about thousands of contracts and hundreds of thousands of employment, and probably canceled.”
Some experts were worried about long -term uncertainty effects. According to data from the research firm Atlas Public Policy, companies have announced plans to invest more than $ 167 billion in US factories since the approval of the inflation reduction method. In addition to tax deductions, some of these factories were awarded federal government loans or subsidies.
“We are in the very important investment cycle,” said Mike Car, an executive director of the U.S. Allied solar energy manufacturer. “However, if uncertainties are introduced, there is a risk of losing that momentum.”
Other Federal Candidate subsidies go to poor areas or rural areas.
Virginia Democratic Party Jennifer McRelin is waiting for Henriko County's public school system to ask if a 1.3 million dollar subsidy of an electric school bus approved by the EPA in the Biden administration will be respected. I mentioned.
In the central part of Illinois, 13 rural areas that have set up a microglid and have earned $ 15 million energy subsidies to purchase at least one electric school bus are new equipment in this area. I am worried that it will not be installed annually. , If so.
“We're a bit ghost,” said Tim Farker, director of Mercer County School District in Illinois, that he operates a program.
