{"id":110259,"date":"2025-01-30T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=110259"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:35:33","slug":"indian-country-still-on-high-alert-over-president-trumps-freeze-on-federal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/01\/30\/indian-country-still-on-high-alert-over-president-trumps-freeze-on-federal-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Country still on high alert over President Trump’s freeze on federal funding"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Saginaw<\/a>
The Men\u2019s Society of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe carry boxes holding ancestors and funerary objects to the Nibokaan (Place of Sleeping) Cemetery for reburial on tribal homelands in Michigan. Photo by Marcella Hadden \/ Niibing Giizis Photography (Courtesy National Park Service)<\/figcaption>\r\n
Indian Country still on high alert over President Trump’s freeze on federal funding<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, January 30, 2025<\/div>\r\n
By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe new administration of President Donald Trump continues to send conflicting messages about a controversial freeze on federal funds<\/a>, resulting in ongoing uncertainty for Indian Country.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nIn an update on Thursday morning, the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers<\/a> (NATHPO) confirmed that federal funding has been put on hold since Trump took office a week ago. That means that tribes cannot access grants to protect their ancestors, cultural property or sacred sites.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nNATHPO traced the funding freeze to a memorandum issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Monday. The controversial directive was defended by Trump’s team on Tuesday as a legal and appropriate exercise of the 47th’s president’s authority.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n“The memorandum said all Federal agencies were required to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities to make sure they are consistent with President Trump\u2019s policies and requirements,” NATHPO said<\/a> in its update.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n“Because the funding THPOs receive from the Historic Preservation Fund are grants, that funding was paused,” NATHPO confirmed, referring to the Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs) that receive government funds. \r\n

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This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze.

It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.

Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction.

The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.<\/p>— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>