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Arazi

(7,320 posts)
14. Yup. They'll get Vought over the finish line to OMB
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:01 PM
19 hrs ago

And reinstate the freeze.

Eliminating the Impoundment Act is his number one goal

madaboutharry

(41,477 posts)
4. The Whiplash Administration.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:36 PM
20 hrs ago

In my humble opinion, the tornado of bullshit and chaos will not hold.

I really do believe that the American people do not want to live like this. The American people want to wake up in the morning and find a world similar to the one that existed the day before. I think that little of Trump's 2025 agenda is going to come to fruition and that come the midterms the voters will let it be known they had enough. Then there will be two years of nothing getting done, which is the best we can hope for.

UTUSN

(73,094 posts)
5. A tactic of keeping everybody on edge and controlled. We know, but jerk Drumpf has no
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:41 PM
20 hrs ago

concept of government serving the populace, or of the govern-or being selfless to forget himself for the public good, or of minimizing the obstacles and stress for the denizens. The past ten years of him inflicting himself on everybody is constant stress and trepidation.




EdmondDantes_

(215 posts)
9. I think it's just incompetence
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:49 PM
20 hrs ago

They clearly didn't know it was going to block Medicaid was going to be blocked. I think they thought all grants went to what they see as useless science or DEI or critical race theory. The biggest through line of Trump is being dumb in spite of thinking they are smarter than everyone else.

UTUSN

(73,094 posts)
17. "Incompetence" maybe some of his unqualified underlings, but actual evil on his part and
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:10 PM
15 hrs ago

the others.




Hugin

(35,215 posts)
10. That's why I call this era the Great Imposition...
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:50 PM
20 hrs ago

We’re being imposed on.

Also, it has the same root as Imposter.

JCMach1

(28,237 posts)
6. On to the next atrocity...
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:45 PM
20 hrs ago

While they prepare the Canal Zone invasion...

Which actually isn't about the canal but expedited money laundering via Panama

durablend

(8,103 posts)
7. Now that he knows this matters
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:46 PM
20 hrs ago

He and Heritage are going to go back to the drawing board to make it even worse. As punishment for defiance.

mwmisses4289

(295 posts)
11. Several someone's got it
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:52 PM
19 hrs ago

through his thick pasty orange skull that this would badly affect his tech bros, billionaire buddies, and himself? Especially himself.

Jim__

(14,561 posts)
12. He doesn't know why he signed it in the first place, and now he doesn't know why it's rescinded.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:55 PM
19 hrs ago

The country can't be run by someone with no idea of what he is doing. We are in deep deep trouble.

LetMyPeopleVote

(157,107 posts)
15. Trump rescinds funding freeze memo after chaos, confusion
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:42 PM
19 hrs ago

The White House sparked a national controversy when it ordered a freeze on federal grants. Under pressure, Team Trump rescinded its scandalous memo.
https://bsky.app/profile/msnbc.com/post/3lgvkv265z225



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-rescinds-federal-funding-freeze-memo-chaos-confusion-rcna189851

Some political observers argue that Donald Trump and his team are simply impervious to pressure. No matter how great the outrage, the argument goes, the president and his Republican operation will ignore criticisms, rewrite history, deliver marching orders, and refuse to back down.

This observation is mistaken. Indeed, several examples have emerged since the president’s second inaugural.

Take, for example, the White House’s budget office ordered a freeze to federal grants, loans and related assistance — money that Congress has already appropriated — effectively trying to shift the power of the purpose to the Trump administration. The OMB memo sparked widespread confusion, chaos and controversy.

And it’s against this backdrop that the White House rescinded the memo on Wednesday.




.....The criticisms are more than fair. White House officials have been planning for this moment for months. They had every opportunity to carefully and deliberately flesh out a policy, prepare for its unveiling, and implement it effectively. Instead, Team Trump issued a terribly written OMB memo, generated chaos and confusion, spent a day pretending it was sound, only to retreat under pressure that officials should've seen coming......

With this in mind, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a celebratory statement — “Americans fought back, and Donald Trump backed off,” the New York Democrat wrote — warning of a second round to the broader fight.

“Though the Trump administration failed in this tactic, it’s no secret that they will try to find another, and when they do, it will again be Senate Democrats there to call it out, fight back, and defend American families,” Schumer concluded.
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