https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-reviewing-funding-state-local-government-recipients-permitting-anarchy-violence-destruction-american-cities/ President Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to consider ways to defund Seattle and three other cities that were the sites of what he calls “lawless protests.” The five-page memo orders all federal agencies to send reports to the White House that detail funds that can be redirected elsewhere.