The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has blasted the Donald Trump administration’s order to freeze all federal loans and grants, describing it as a “dangerous move towards authoritarianism” in America.
The order, which is scheduled to begin at 5pm ET on Tuesday, was ordered in a memo from the US president’s acting head of the Office of Management and Budget on Monday evening. The directive instructs all federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance”.
