On January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum requiring all federal agencies to “complete a comprehensive analysis of all of their Federal financial assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by any of the President’s executive orders…[and] pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders.” Since that time two federal judges have issued orders calling for the President to unfreeze this federal funding; however, the Trump administration continues to withhold money that Congress has appropriated. This is causing mass confusion, frustration, and uncertainty amongst the millions of Americans who rely on federally funded childcare, food assistance, and housing programs, and hundreds of nonprofits that depend on government grants.
 
That is why I am introducing a resolution urging the President to unfreeze previously appropriated federal funds. Over $700 million in funding for transportation projects our state critically needs and more are on the line, including infrastructure work for passenger rail service between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg and the development of new passenger routes between Scranton and New York City and between Philadelphia and Reading. The funds would have also been used to install electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles along interstate highways and special transportation corridors and replace the South Bridge on Interstate 83. Please join me in co-sponsoring this resolution to send a strong message to the Trump administration that it is overstepping its constitutional bounds.