(28 Jan 2025)
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New York – 28 January 2025
1. Monsignor Alfred LoPinto at desk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Alfred LoPinto, CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn & Queens:
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"You want to have a political conversation, have as many political conversations as your heart desires, but don’t do it at the expense of the people, of the individuals and the families."
3. Tight of LoPinto at desk with paperwork
4. Detail of presidential memo
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Alfred LoPinto, CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn & Queens:
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"We have a number of programs that are directly funded through the federal government. One of which is our Head Start program. And when our comptroller went earlier today to submit our reimbursement request, wasn’t able to get through. We didn’t know if that was a glitch or whether it was because they had shut the system down. We later found out they had shut the system down."
6. Medium of LoPinto at desk with paperwork
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Alfred LoPinto, CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn & Queens:
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"I mean, this has never happened before in one sense. When these things have happened where you do these in-depth pieces, trying to figure out can you enhance the efficiency of the work of an agency, it usually you start with an announcement that we’re going to do this. Here are the steps we’re going to take. Here’s the timeline we’re going to be working on. And so there’s a sense of stability. Okay. Yeah, you can anticipate changes are going to come, but those changes are not going to be drastic to the point that you don’t know if you have a job tomorrow morning."
8. Exterior of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens
9. Signage and pedestrians outside charity
10. LoPinto at desk with presidential memo
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred LoPinto, CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn & Queens:
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"Politicizes everything beyond need in the sense of it takes it out of the arena of trying to say, are these necessary services? What are the benefits that are being derived by these services? How are people’s lives being enhanced? And it puts it into this political arena, which really doesn’t belong in the work that is done by the nonprofits."
12. Wide LoPinto at desk with paperwork
STORYLINE:
Advocates warn that efforts by the Trump administration to freeze federal grants and loans jeopardizes essential childcare, education, and healthcare.
A federal judge late Tuesday delayed any pause in funding until Monday.
But nonprofits, including Catholic Charities of Brooklyn & Queens, faced immediate funding issues, halting reimbursement requests for critical services.
Advocates say the move politicizes nonpartisan services, risking harm to families who rely on them. Democratic leaders called the action reckless, illegal, and a violation of Congressional authority.
The White House had planned to start the pause as they begin an across-the-board ideological review of federal spending.
Administration officials have said federal assistance to individuals would not be affected, including Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, student loans and scholarships.
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