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White House rescinds Trump's funding freeze after massive backlash

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a "temporary pause" on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.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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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
- I just wish him telling the world what he was going to do would have fired people up in November.
  
  People were really fired up for the generic democrat against Trump. People were not fired up for the geriatric democrat that actually was running.
  
  People were really fired up for the generic democrat against Trump. People were not fired up for the geriatric democrat that actually was running.
  Harris was a geriatric?
  
  Many people drew a direct line between Biden's weaknesses and the Harris campaign, and Harris didn't really try that hard to differentiate the two. She might have if there was an actual primary, but we'll never know.
  
  "People including myself saw what we wanted to see despite efforts to appeal to us"
  FTFY
  
  What efforts? "Not Trump" was factually "Not enough". Wish it was, but unless you deny the electoral results, Harris need something other than "Not Trump" to win.
  
  Controversial I know, but I think saying "hey we're not going to recklessly break the country and sell off the peices to our rich friends" does make you better than the person who will just break stuff.
  Either way the protest votes still had 0 effect on the results of the election.
  
  She was missing the most important thing to defeat Trump... a penis.
  
  Well Bernie would have probably stolen the show and you can't have that...
  
  He ran twice and lost twice. Average democrats are too indoctrinated and don't want radical things like education or healthcare, let alone Republicans from the church of fox.
  
  The DNC admitted that they threw it to Hillary the first time. And the second time they had to beg Biden out of retirement to find an alternative to Bernie. It's infuriating, Bernie has never been given a real chance.
  
  They favored Clinton, but they didn't falsify votes or anything like that, democrats still voted for her (and Biden) in masses.
  
  He was given a chance in 2020 and lost by a pretty large margin. I voted for him twice. The reality is progressives are not popular, even within the Democratic party. If we want that to change, we need to first convince people from the bottom up instead of expecting some kind of top down change.
  
  I think you missed a few months towards the end there...
  
  Na, people had hope Harris would be different. Then she quashed it.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  Trump himself wouldn't care, but other Republicans sure as hell would. They can certainly increase pressure after things like that
  
  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.
- Let’s keep that same energy for the midterms
  
  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.
  
  Never, ever place any bets on the intelligence of the American electorate.
  Well, unless you're betting against it.
  
  I'd rather bet on the bear if it could vote.
  
  The economy is going to crash and burn like a crack-ho driving a Pontiac Sunfire when he "saves it" via tariffs, and grocery aisles are going to be empty of produce because they deport and scare the workforce that picks it.
  Be prepared for him to declare martial law just after the midterms because it's going to be an epic loss.
  
  "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.
  
  I think this is still optimistic, even considering how much harm this would inevitably cause. I think they're going to get around transferring power somehow
  
  They're not letting go of the power to destroy the United States. November was the last semi-legitmate election we will ever have.
- I sure as hell hope so. I get people have things going on, but not voting is just letting us get fucked.

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