Government freeze affecting your work?

Anyone else have a grant from the government? We've got money from HHS to do a project and haven't been able to communicate with our project officer since the new regime took over. Normally I would be working on a paper from the data we collected and thinking about some conference presentations. But now it just seems pointless. This has longer term ramifications in that I'd like to get promoted to full and was expecting to get several papers from this. Ugh, ugh, ugh. (Very selfish perspective, I know.)