From The Midwesterner:
Trump’s order, which “immediately suspended” grant funding to conduct a 90-day review of refugee programs and other foreign assistance, came with letters to resettlement agencies to “stop all work” and “not incur any new costs” through existing grants, according to a letter from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration cited by The Associated Press.
The letter also ordered agencies to “cancel as many outstanding obligations as possible.”
The order impacts about 26,494 refugees and recipients of Special Immigration Visas nationwide, which presumably include many who participate in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Newcomer Rental Subsidy program.
That program is funded by both state and federal taxpayers, and it’s unclear how the federal order will impact the program, which provides $500 monthly rental subsidies for “newcomers” for up to a year.
