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An executive order by President Donald Trump requiring agencies to stop paying money for two mammoth Biden-era laws could bring a wide range of infrastructure, transportation and energy projects to a halt — including those already delivering jobs to Republican-led states.

The language in question, in one of dozens of orders Trump issued on his first day in office, commands agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds” under former President Joe Biden’s 2021 infrastructure law and his 2022 climate statute. That wording could imperil billions of dollars in funding for projects that states have already begun working on, some lawmakers and policy experts said Tuesday, for everything from roads and bridges to broadband and withstanding the effects of climate change.
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Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) said his understanding is that Trump was just declaring a pause. It’s a “concern, but again I don’t know how big a concern,” Crapo said. “I think he’s just pausing it right now. That doesn’t mean the payments aren’t going to be made.

And Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said he hoped any disruption in funds would be “a brief pause.”

The order paused the disbursement of funds until agencies review whether their “processes, policies, and programs” for issuing the funding align with the administration’s policy agenda
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TV viewing figures fall for Trump’s inauguration

Six million fewer US viewers tuned in than for his first inauguration – and nine million fewer people than for Biden in 2021
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TV viewing figures fall for Trump’s inauguration​

Six million fewer US viewers tuned in than for his first inauguration – and nine million fewer people than for Biden in 2021


Nine million fewer viewers tuned in for Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony than for Joe Biden’s in 2021. According to audience measurement company Nielsen, 24.6 million people watched the former reality TV personality take office, compared with 33.8 million who saw Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration.

The number of viewers was also significantly down on the 30.6 million Americans who watched coverage of Trump’s first inauguration. This time, the majority of viewers were aged 55 and over, with 17% of all US citizens in that age bracket watching, compared with 1.9% of people aged 18 to 34.


Trump’s viewing figures are the lowest since Barack Obama’s second inauguration, in 2013, which drew 20.5 million viewers. Ratings typically drop for presidents’ second swearing in, with George W Bush’s second inauguration providing the lowest TV viewing figures since 1969. However, Richard Nixon bucked the trend by increasing his television audience by 6 million – from 27 million to 33 million.

Neither of Trump’s inauguration ratings came near that of Obama’s first, which brought 38 million Americans to their television sets in 2009, and was the most-watched swearing in since 1981.

The majority of people watching Trump’s recent inauguration did so on Fox News. It had 10.67 million tuning in, followed by ABC News with 4.85 million. When Biden’s inauguration was televised, Fox News’ coverage drew the smallest of the major TV networks.
 
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