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imanamerican63

(14,500 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:44 PM 19 hrs ago

Trump freezes himself or is realizes he screwed up?

Breaking! Trump’s administration reverses his own order to freeze federal funds!

They must be afraid of what the outcome will bring?

Yahoo News.

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Trump freezes himself or is realizes he screwed up? (Original Post) imanamerican63 19 hrs ago OP
Psst verb patrol coming. One too many in title. GreenWave 19 hrs ago #1
yeah, I hear sirens coming this way! Conjuay 18 hrs ago #7
Ok what does that mean?.... Lovie777 19 hrs ago #2
Trump rescinds funding freeze memo after chaos, confusion LetMyPeopleVote 18 hrs ago #3
You all need to stop with this durablend 18 hrs ago #4
The courts are checking on whether the executive order is in effect LetMyPeopleVote 18 hrs ago #6
A judge's ruling temporarily nudged Trump and his goons in this direction peggysue2 18 hrs ago #5

LetMyPeopleVote

(157,107 posts)
3. Trump rescinds funding freeze memo after chaos, confusion
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:26 PM
18 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 Under pressure, Team Trump rescinded its scandalous memo.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And it’s against this backdrop that the White House rescinded the memo on Wednesday.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.

durablend

(8,103 posts)
4. You all need to stop with this
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:28 PM
18 hrs ago

The freeze is supposedly still in effect, they're just "Nuh uh"-ing their way around the mess.

LetMyPeopleVote

(157,107 posts)
6. The courts are checking on whether the executive order is in effect
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:48 PM
18 hrs ago

The various plaintiffs are checking on the status of the executive order and will not accept the statements of TFG's brain dead press secretary




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