ASU Offers Mental Health Resources to Deal With Trump Administration Policies

Arizona State University (ASU) is offering mental health resources to all staff, faculty, and students who feel they cannot handle the new policies of the Trump administration.

In an email sent out on Tuesday, obtained by The Arizona Daily Independent, ASU Associate Dean Bill Terrill directed aggrieved faculty and staff to reach out to the Employee Assistance Office, and directed students to reach out to the Educational Outreach and Student Services counseling.

Terrill also conveyed special concern over the state of ASU federal funding given the Trump administration’s pause on certain federal grants. Terrill advised that his office has launched a “systematic tracking system” to document all impacted by the federal grant suspension.

That pause on funding ordered by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Monday via a memorandum to all federal agencies was to take effect at 5 pm on Tuesday.

In its memo, OMB directed federal agencies to identify and review the compliance of all of their financial assistance programs, projects, and supporting activities with Trump’s policies and requirements. This memorandum expressly exempted Medicare and Social Security benefits from the pause on funding.

“Federal agencies must temporarily 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, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal,” stated the memo.

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