WH spokesperson saying only the OMB memo has been rescinded and that the EO is still being enforced — more confusion. https://bsky.app/profile/hayesbrown.bsky.social/post/3lgvn4rclos2g EDIT: But...
WH spokesperson saying only the OMB memo has been rescinded and that the EO is still being enforced — more confusion.
I think they mean the EO regarding not spending money on the forbidden topics but frankly I think this is deliberate rather than incompetence, or at best both.
I think they mean the EO regarding not spending money on the forbidden topics but frankly I think this is deliberate rather than incompetence, or at best both.
In a memo dated Wednesday and 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J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum M-25-13 “is rescinded.”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.”
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The Trump administration withdrew the order a day after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted its implementation until Feb. 3, allowing public health advocates, nonprofits and businesses — represented by the left-leaning group Democracy Forward — more time to challenge the directive’s legality. Separately, roughly two dozen state attorneys general filed their own lawsuit against the administration on Tuesday, arguing that the pause in federal spending has harmed their citizens.
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On X, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt acknowledged that the initial budget office memo has been suspended but said the administration’s broader efforts to block spending it opposes remain in effect. Other executive orders approved by President Donald Trump but not rescinded — including a pause on foreign aid and on some clean energy funds approved by the Biden administration — appear to still be in effect, budget experts said. Leavitt said the order was rescinded to make clear that the administration will comply with the federal order pausing the freeze.
WH spokesperson saying only the OMB memo has been rescinded and that the EO is still being enforced — more confusion.
https://bsky.app/profile/hayesbrown.bsky.social/post/3lgvn4rclos2g
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But apparently there was no specific EO implementing this, so maybe this is them saving face?
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lgvpews6q22r
I think they mean the EO regarding not spending money on the forbidden topics but frankly I think this is deliberate rather than incompetence, or at best both.
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