The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a "temporary pause" on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.

Why it matters: It's an astonishing reversal by the Trump administration, a day after top officials defended the funding freeze — which a judge temporarily halted on Tuesday — as necessary to ensure all government spending was aligned with the president's vision.

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[–] 107 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (33 children)

Probably helps that Dems yesterday in an Iowa special just flipped a state senate district. That district voted for Trump by a 21% margin in 2024. A dem just won it by ~3-4%

There also was an overperformed by 14 points in a Minnesota special election (getting 90% of the vote) yesterday too

His horrible actions have fired people up

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    His horrible actions have fired people up

    I like how Americans can only get fired up while actively being abused. Once the abuse wears off we just re-elect our abusers.

    So, assuming we're allowed to vote in 4 years, we'll probably put a Democrat in office, only to put our abusers back in 4 years later.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I highly doubt those had any affect on the decision whatsoever.

    The Trump administration is not the type to rapidly reverse course just because of outrage. It depends on outrage. Whatever spurred this is part of a larger play.

    You can find optimistic lessons in those elections, but the White House is on its own shit now.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Almost certainly Republicans of power (money or political) didn't like the order, because it would have economic impacts for them or their constituents. It was an insane order that would have harmed everyone everywhere. Those are the only people that matter to him.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Let’s keep that same energy for the midterms

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    There was similar energy in the mid terms after RvW was overturned, but it seemed to have dried up by the time of the election. I'm always hopeful, but it's not a bet I would take.

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  • [+] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Yeah, so we're going to hold off on elections because we're declaring a state of emergency and we'll let you know when that state of emergency is over."

    Absolutely guarantee they'll try it.

    It'll piss Americans off and we'll get a Democrat back in office, then 4 years later we'll have completely forgotten Republican's traitorous actions and re-elect them.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo."

    Uh...What??

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    "Sorry guys, the spending freeze wasn't supposed to be announced yet! It's supposed to be part of a larger plan later this year meant to kickstart a 'The Purge' type situation which we think will be really great for the American people! Stay tuned and we'll have more info in the coming months! Be on the lookout for Armageddon 26, and let's make America GREAT again!"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    What a mook.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only backlash that matters in the end is the one that sees him hanging from his ankles in the middle of a town square. Until then, he'll just try something else.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This matters though. It means my cousins lab gets funding back so they will be able to pay for power without which they would have lost millions in samples because the refrigeration would have died.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    I don't disagree that it matters. But I can't help but think of every block of Cheetolini's agenda as just temporary because he'll simply keep taking it higher and higher until it hits the supreme court, and gets his way anyway.

    That was his entire plan from the beginning. He knows that literally everything he tries to do is going to get challenged. And he knows that if he sticks to his guns and it gets to the SC, he wins every time.

    If the SC was unbiased, I wouldn't be so brazen about it. But we are at the point where nothing will make a permanent difference except dragging him and his cronies through the streets and damn the personal consequences.

    The tree of liberty and all that jazz...

    Edited to add: I should point out that I'm not American. I'm a Canadian who is terrified of your shit spreading north and dragging us into a fight we don't want and literally begging you guys to fucking do something about it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Don't worry, it'll be resumed in a month or two.

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