The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.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