Hobbs Accused Of Causing Panic Over Funding Fear-Mongering 

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Governor Katie Hobbs

A federal judge stopped the implementation of a new Trump administration policy that orders the withholding of trillions of dollars in funding, but not before Governor Katie Hobbs embarrassed herself when she penned a letter to the state’s Congressional delegation.

As a result of her quick response to Congressional members, the Governor is not only being accused of being a fear-monger, she’s being accused of not knowing that Arizona has nine congressional districts rather than seven.

At issue is the Governor’s reaction to a Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo outlining plans to freeze funding to various federal programs.

The OMB policy, issued late on January 27, directed all federal agencies to indefinitely pause the majority of federal assistance funding and loans to states and other entities beginning at 5:00 p.m. on January 28.

In response to the news of the memo, Hobbs announced on X.com that she “sent a letter to our congressional delegation asking them to join me in standing up for working people in our state.

“@KatieHobbs forgetting to include not 1 but *2* members of AZ’s delegation (@AbrahamHamadeh & @DrPaulGosar) on a formal letter to Congress — a letter that went through several aides for approval — encompasses her tenure perfectly,” tweeted Brian Anderson of Saguaro Group in response. “Bewilderingly dumb.”

Congressman Eli Crane responded to Hobbs, “Thanks for asking. I will not stand with you in needlessly scaring hardworking Arizonans by perpetuating lies for raw political gain. I’d also be remiss not to point out that you forgot two Members of Congress. Arizona has 9 House members. Not 7. @RepGosar and @RepAbeHamadeh.”

Later, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan for the District of Columbia imposed an administrative stay, pausing the Trump administration’s action on Tuesday afternoon,” according to FOX News.

Contrary to Hobbs hyperbolic statement, the Trump administration made clear that no programs that directly affect individual Americans would be affected including Social Security benefits, Medicare, food stamps, and welfare benefits.

A supplemental memo from OMB was also sent out on Tuesday in an attempt to clear up confusion, according to FOX News.

“A pause could be as short as a day. In fact, OMB has worked with agencies and has already approved many programs to continue even before the pause has gone into effect,” the memo read.

Unlike Hobbs, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin offered reassurances to his residents, “I’ve spoken to senior officials at the White House and confirmed the temporary pause by OMB does not impact individual assistance and will not interrupt disaster recovery efforts, school and childcare funding, healthcare for seniors or low-income families, funding for our roads, meals and lunches, or any of the other misinformation that has spread. The partisan stunt to disseminate knowingly misleading information is dangerous fearmongering and completely wrong. President Trump is doing what an executive should do at the beginning of a term, which is find out where the money is and where it’s going, not unlike what we did at the beginning of our term here in Virginia when we identified $1.4 billion in appropriated but unspent taxpayer money.”

Hobbs, one of the least popular governors in the US, has had a number of stumbles and is facing sharp criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike for those missteps.

“Katie ought to know how many US Representatives we have in this state, and if she were really worried about funding, she would be nice to all of them when she sees them. She needs them,” one political consultant told the Arizona Daily Independent.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined the multistate lawsuit that stopped the implementation of a new Trump administration policy that orders the temporary withholding of funding.

Attorney General Mayes and the coalition claimed in their lawsuit, that OMB’s policy has caused immediate chaos and uncertainty for millions of Americans who rely on state programs that receive these federal funds.

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26 Comments

  1. We’re already worse under trump. Egg prices are through the roof, gas is up 50 cents a gallon, caffe prices are going up. This is just the first week. I thought he was going to end inflation.

  2. Just impeach her and get her out of office. Oh that’s right if that’s done then Adrian is our Gov and he’s much much worse

  3. Iowa turned back to red…guess if this empty headed Hobbit gets
    re-elected I’ll move back to Iowa! So sad that lefties get so emotional and want us to be emotional…emotions don’t make for clear thinking and lead to bad decisions!

  4. Thankfully these relics of 2020 era fear mongering are losing ground. Truth is being restored to the national debate.

  5. First, Krissy should know a few things about “chaos and uncertainty,” since those are the hallmarks of her tenure. On a larger point, the U.S. Congress needs to rein in these activist judges. This is a replay of Trump’s first term. Every action was met with a nationwide injunction ordered by some no-name twit in a blue jurisdiction. The president is accountable to the people, not to these arrogant nitwits.

  6. Local FAKE news stations srill pushing the stank fear with no shame. The leftist and uni party media is your enemy, they protect the corrupt establishment. MAGA.

  7. Isn’t it amazing that our governor doesn’t know how many congressional districts she governs over? Then she puts out a blatantly false statement to whip up hysteria and has all her minions do the same. She’s worse than useless, she’s destructive. We all know the democrats cheated to get her elected. Next election needs to be too big to rig.

  8. *Local(FAKE)news is pushing the scare pretty good on this. The radical left has got to get out of the INFLUENCE for mainstream news or they will gaslight the sheeple for the midterms,and then we will never MAGA.

  9. I am a woman, so as a life long member of this victim group I feel entitled to make these two observations: everywhere I look, I see women in high positions of power and influence, whether it be in governance, the media, schools, etc. and everywhere I look I see glaring evidence of cultural, spiritual, moral, intellectual, and even physical decay. I cannot help but conclude that the two things are somehow related to one another.

    • I only see it in left wing democrats. They only have antics and tantrums because they are devoid of any substance.

  10. Governor Troll is using the Marxist tool of trying to set the narrative to accomplish her anti-Trump goals, not for the citizens of Arizona, and certainly noy the truth.

  11. that dumb stunned look she seems to express on the outside – is the reality of what’s going on on the ‘inside’ she’s simply poorly qualified to occupy the position of the office which has her name on the door. An embarrassment to the State of Arizona

  12. If she gets reelected somehow, I’m moving out of Arizona. Guess I’ll have to go back to Seattle. Everywhere I go, a red state turns into a blue state. This is ridiculous.

    🙁

    • Open-for-business Arizona is the favorite landing strip for the fleeing California tech companies who want to grow their businesses but are forbidden to do so in CA, because much of that growth relies on the ability to pollute the environment. For such a dry state, we seem to have plenty of water and power for these behemoth companies.

  13. The occupant of the governor’s office was never elected. Thinking Arizonans know that, and pay her no heed.
    Leftist/marxists are as useless as t*ts on a boar hog.

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