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The Trump administration’s biggest swing, which fundamentally rebuilt the federal government, was less than 45 hours.
The frozen dollar in the federal government’s subsidies and loan expenditures was issued to the Federal Government without fanfare on Monday night without fanfare, even among fellow Republican members. Caused. This effect was touched on all the country’s corners and knew whether the state of the state’s medical funding was temporarily closed, and that a meal -like program would be scrambled to lose money.
The White House claimed that confusion is a media -led creature. However, on Wednesday, the management and budget stations withdrew the order two days ago and issued two short two sentences just 20 hours after the federal judge ordered to stop freezing.
The withdrawal of the Federal Freezing is an amazing aspect for President Donald Trump’s White House, so far, so far, envelopes have urged to reconstruct the federal government, dismissed carriers, and suspended foreign aid programs. And the purchase that has achieved confusion and confusion when providing federal workers.
The episode emphasized the risk of “fast moving and breaking things” to recreate the federal government in a large amount of actions in the first 10 days, with the White House’s high -tech tactics.
The Republican members of the Congress personally frustrated that they were not leading to the decision to stir the direct flood of anger from the members. The administration received a large call from a member of the Diet and the state officials about the impact on his hometown.
“We were in the dark, just like everyone else,” said the Senator of the co -party, talking to the CNN and talked about freezing anonymous conditions to avoid the alienation of the west wing. “It was unfortunate and unnecessary.”
Following the first release of Monday afternoon memo, CNN spoke with more than 12 officials, five organizations, members of the Capitol Hill Republican and Democratic members, and senior assistants. Authorities said that the confusion was universal and no answer was present.
The reversal has revived the ability of the government to manage or appropriately explain the decision, even among the worshipers of the president. The radioactive drop from the OMB memo on Monday was reminiscent of a confusion that often bothered Trump’s west in his first term.
After the memo was revoked on Wednesday, Trump tries to scramble, despite his government trying to regain the frozen funding of his first signs of his executive institutions. He argued that the biggest reversal was not such a reversal at all.
“We are simply looking at some of the tremendous waste, fraud, and abused bureaucracy,” Trump stated in the first bill signature on the unrelated immigration law.
It was a tremendous series of events that provided a window to give to a new Washington order. The White House rejected the signs of frustration and accused the media instead of accepting responsibility for the wave of rebound from Republican members and the Democratic Party.
“If the left -wing media outlet publishes a fake news article that caused confusion, I can’t help it,” said Steven Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday. I talked.
“There is a confusion”: Jake Tuppter pushes Stephen Miller to explain an order to freeze the federal aid.
However, due to the reversal on Wednesday, the administration has a vast view of the president’s executive power in his exploration that Trump’s “awakening” agenda is taking it to the government as a whole. He revealed that he was not eager to fight.
“This lawsuit should effectively end the court’s lawsuit and focus on the government’s order to manage federal expenditures,” said the White House Representative Director Karoline Leavittt. I mentioned on Wednesday. “In the coming weeks and months, more executive action will continue to end terrible waste of federal funding.”
The liberal group has filed a lawsuit against freezing as part of what had been regarded as the best example of Trump’s too much.
“I hope millions of people in the community nationwide can sigh, but we are harmful and mercy on the Trumpwance administration, which releases confusion and harm to Americans. Spires approaches.
The short Saga also created the biggest opening in the second week of the administration, trying to use the Democratic Party’s Miss Steps and saw the Miss steps of Trump. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s minority leader, used the news as a peg and held a second press conference on the day. “We have never won this battle. Don’t misunderstand, but we know that we can have a real impact,” he said.
In the first ten days of Trump, the President issued an electric shock that consumed all of the administrative orders and litigation to rebuild the federal government equivalent to a full -term attack on labor.
However, the OMB memo that landed in the box in the agency at 5:00 pm on Monday was dramatically different.
The lawyer and the federal program manager discussed the paragraphs, sentences, and words of words on two pages of OMB.
One statement referred to the Federal Finance Support Program, which accounts for 30 % of federal expenditures in 2024. Even if multiple officials have been flammax by a government spending of almost $ 10 trillion, some have read it as a marker covered by notes.
“Do you think it’s just a few trillions?” Said the CNN that the U.S. government has referred to the actual number ($ 6.75 trillion).
Another part of the memo is “I have identified all the federal financial support programs, reviewed them, and instructed them to review support activities that match the policy and requirements of the president.”
This was read by many officials as a clear statement that many officials were applied to all single federal support programs, except for the two exceptions of the two footnotes. Support, med care and social security profits directly provided to individuals.
Footnotes aimed to grasp the specific subsection of federal regulations, as it includes grant, loan, loan guarantee, interest subsidies, insurance, direct budget, food products, and cooperative contract financial support. I revealed the memo.
“These were our reference points to the universe, affected by notes,” said one advanced career agency manager. “It is difficult to read to cover everything other than a specific exemption.”
This memo instructs “each institution” to perform a complete and comprehensive analysis of all federal financial support programs, and provide programs, projects, and activities that may be related to any of the president’s administrative orders. Identify. ”
According to the notes, the federal agencies said that the federal agencies were “temporarily provided all activities for all activities”, which would be inconsistent with “all federal financial support” and Trump’s presidential order. You have to stop. ”
Three words -“I have to temporarily pause” – was bold.
If there is no clear or correct interpretation from the White House, several authorities have a wide -spectacular view, because no exceptions are clearly pointed out and they are fully freezing. did.
The confusion worsened on Tuesday morning, and the agency received a labeled spreadsheet called “Instructions”, including more than 2,500 programs, which are listed as reviews.
It takes another 7 hours for the White House to provide all kinds of clarification. Another OMB memo formatted as “Q & A” that extends the exempted program. Most officials and members of the Diet assumed that clarity is the result of public pressure, which represents the intentions of the intention after the facts.
The White House claimed not so, attacking the media, accurately reporting all consumption confusion throughout the agency. However, the confusion was realistic and did not occur in vacuum.
“I can understand that career officials are cautious about doing things that are not in line with the administration’s intentions,” said the senior GOP Assistant, who was constantly talking to the agency officials. I told CNN. “This White House is not taking a step of a baby, and they are certainly notted the time to target people who do not run their play.”
While signing the bill on Wednesday on Wednesday, Trump defended the freezing of expenditures and said, “To quickly see fraud, fraud, waste, and abuse in the government.”
Trump has quoted a suspicious claim for going to Gaza for a condom, and several payments, including “more than $ 40 million from the door to a very rotten world health agency.”
Trump’s assistant officer was discussed on Tuesday, saying that it was necessary to pause. Dozens of career employees from the US International Development Organization were on Monday on Monday over the claims to avoid Trump’s order to freeze almost all foreign assistance.
In an interview with the CNN tapper, Miller said that Tuesday’s career HHS employees were trying to push money to NGOs in the third country of immigrants.
It was decided that it would be further tightened to ensure the consistency with Trump’s policy. According to Miller and White House staff, Russell, co -author of Project 2025, an unidentified OMB director of Trump.
“The OMB led by Russ Vouch is a clear guidance that establishes these discretionary funding, which is not instructed to protect taxpayers’ resources and go through a political approval process in Congress. I felt it was necessary to issue it.
Immediately after the White House canceled the memo about 44 hours after the first release, an assistant to the Senior Republican Party drew an unbelievable observation in textbooks.
It is not VOUGHT, but rather the OMB director, Matthew Vaeth, who signed two memos.
Ironically, Vaeth, a career OMB staff who had been in a budget office for decades, was simply working and executing Trump’s instructions. Isn’t that the case for federal workers above and below the organization’s organizational charts? ”
CNN’s Hadas Gold and Kaitlan Collins have contributed to this report.
