Trump White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, reversing course

[otto105]

Trump White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, reversing course​

I guess the new administration is Tired of winning. It can't be that the courts are now involved, can it? Was it all a game?

Hearing that The budget office came under immense pressure over the impacts of a sudden pause in key government spending. Is this a cave-in to realities?

Jeb Bush was correct: Chaos Candidate will be a Chaos president.

By Jeff Stein
and
Tony Romm
The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.

In the memo distributed to federal agencies, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum M-25-13 “is rescinded.” That order, issued Monday, instructed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”

The White House order freezing federal grants caused mass chaos and confusion across Washington, appearing to imperil government programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure that low-income Americans have access to health care. States reported issues accessing funds under Medicaid, and even as of Wednesday, public housing authorities reported being locked out of their funding portal. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that assistance for individuals would not be affected.

So much failing up for maga.

 

[Dante]

Trump White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, reversing course​

I guess the new administration is Tired of winning. It can't be that the courts are now involved, can it? Was it all a game?

Hearing that The budget office came under immense pressure over the impacts of a sudden pause in key government spending. Is this a cave-in to realities?

Jeb Bush was correct: Chaos Candidate will be a Chaos president.

By Jeff Stein
and
Tony Romm
The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.

In the memo distributed to federal agencies, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum M-25-13 “is rescinded.” That order, issued Monday, instructed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”

The White House order freezing federal grants caused mass chaos and confusion across Washington, appearing to imperil government programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure that low-income Americans have access to health care. States reported issues accessing funds under Medicaid, and even as of Wednesday, public housing authorities reported being locked out of their funding portal. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that assistance for individuals would not be affected.

Way back in December 2015, Jeb Bush said something incredibly prescient about Donald Trump.

“Donald, you know, is great at the one-liners,” said Bush at the final GOP debate of the year. “But, he’s a chaos candidate. And he’d be a chaos president.”​

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No one paid much attention at the time. Voters were a month away from, you know, voting. Trump was riding high and Jeb(!) was, um, not. But, on the 73rd full day of the Trump presidency, it’s clear that Jeb’s prediction was spot on.​

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Trump’s tendency toward chaos – creating it if it didn’t exist or reveling in it when it did – served him well as a candidate. It kept his opponents – in both the Republican primary and the general election – off balance...​

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And, because the American public tends not to pay terribly close attention to the nitty-gritty of a campaign, Trump’s one-liner confectionaries were a perfect fit. People ate them up because, well, it was more fun than what the other candidates were saying. Would you rather watch Trump attack “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz or “Little” Marco Rubio or spectate a dry policy discussion about tax reform? Be honest.​

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The problem for Trump is that while his embrace of chaos fit a campaign perfectly, it’s turned out to be far less beneficial for him since he’s entered the White House....How much can you get done of your agenda before the concerns of Congress turn toward their awaiting fate in the midterm elections?​

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To prosper as president, you need to have both a short-term (daily/weekly) strategy of what you want to talk about and how you want to talk about it and a long-term strategy blueprint...Turn too many of those into mountains and even the best strategy fails.​

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Trump is either unwilling or – and this idea should terrify Republicans looking to hold their congressional majorities in 2018 – incapable of anything approaching that sort of discipline...​

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Add it up and you get chaos – a disorganized jumble of messages, policies and actions that have had Trump and Republicans on the defensive for the lion’s share of his time in the White House. In fact, in thinking back on Trump’s first 72 days as President, I can think of only two that could reasonably be declared clear victories for him:​

yep...

 

[Dante]

So much failing up for maga.

In Magadonia it's called "winning"

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Transgender Opera funding restored
So you'll be going back up on stage

Thank God you know what would this nation do without funding for transgender operas
Democracy Wins


You dunce lol
The normies are just going to hate the left more

 

[otto105]

Transgender Opera funding restored
So you'll be going back up on stage

So is your tobacco fueled cow dung events at your redneck family gatherings.

 

[Billiejeens]

Trump is targeting the Dem's meal ticket, federal grants. Remember that's how global warming 'science' was funded. Also why California doesn't have water for fires or crops...because the poor poor delta smelt minnow.

Also establishment Republicans.

 

[Billiejeens]

Ten days of absolutely running roughshod over the progressive nonsense with one slight course correction.

also huge approval rating.

 

[Billiejeens]

Slight course correction
backing down


not the same.

 

[Leo123]

Trump usually backs down and calls it a winning deal.

I remember him saying he never loses a lawsuit -- said back in 2015/2016

IOW Trump negotiates from a position of power. Soi Boi

 

[JLW]

I see this “freeze” as Trump’s testing the waters for a later assault on Medicaid and other government programs. There are many government programs that people rely on: not just the poor. There will be a rude awakening once these programs are defunded or put on the chopping block come the next Congressional round of funding.

 

[otto105]

IOW Trump negotiates from a position of power. Soi Boi

Like what?

Colombia came to pick up their immigrants rather than have Shitler! make a circus of it.

How about the federal funds freeze? Dud Shitler! win that one?

Getting his sycophants in cabinet positions will only make the degree of failure higher.

 

[otto105]

I see this “freeze” as Trump’s testing the waters for a later assault on Medicaid and other government programs. There are many government programs that people rely on: not just the poor. There will be a rude awakening once these programs are defunded or put on the chopping block come the next Congressional round of funding.

Rural America time to be cut off!!!

 

[Leo123]

I see this “freeze” as Trump’s testing the waters for a later assault on Medicaid and other government programs. There are many government programs that people rely on: not just the poor. There will be a rude awakening once these programs are defunded or put on the chopping block come the next Congressional round of funding.

Trump just said the opposite. Where do you get your news?

 

[JLW]

Rural America time to be cut off!!!

Have a loved one needing to go to a nursing home and relying on Medicaid to pay the tab…Sorry pal..get out your check book to pay that $10,000 a month, and if you can’t afford it, that’s your problem.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Right about now is when you lefties should be in a panic. What this means is Trump found a more lethal way to cut this shit. Give it about two days and the hammer will drop. You people never learn.

The order was rescinded because democrats are too stupid to figure out what was impacted. Once Trump finds a way to explain it to democrats the order will be reimposed.

 

[whitehall]

It's only a week. Trump shows that he is willing to work things out.

 

[otto105]

The order was rescinded because democrats are too stupid to figure out what was impacted. Once Trump finds a way to explain it to democrats the order will be reimposed.

The order was rescinded because the dumbest man Rex Tillerson ever met didn’t understand what he was doing.

It’s simple fuckups.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The order was rescinded because the dumbest man Rex Tillerson ever met didn’t understand what he was doing.

It’s simple fuckups.

Yes. Indeed. Trump made a serious mistake assuming democrats would be able to figure out which funding was impacted.

Either they can't, being too stupid. Or, they outright refuse, being too partisan. It just has to be redone, in tiny words so that the brain damaged democrats could understand.

 

[dudmuck]

Which Trump never threatened.

House Republican Agendas and Project 2025 Would Increase Poverty and Hardship, Drive Up the Uninsured Rate, and Disinvest From People, Communities, and the Economy

 

[TimFitz]

Much ado over nothing. You got nothing. You and Astroturf can go pee up a rope.
Things are getting vetted.
That's what's happening.

BS.

you like making this imaginary “vetting” claim.

Even though it’s very very obvious that your fuhrer rushed into this with no plan of any sort, heedless to the impact.

There was no vetting. There was no plan.

He is a chaos agent. Not a leader.