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Donald Trump abolished his order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal domestic funding, in a major ascent after a general reaction.
The White House management and budget office released a two -line service note on Wednesday to the services and agencies of the executive branches saying that the initial plan had been abandoned.
The U-turn came a day after the Order of Origin sparked a day of political chaos and confusion among the politicians of the two parties, who attacked the way their critical states of the federal services, including Support for the poor and the elderly would be affected.
A federal judge blocked the frost on Tuesday a few minutes before he was determined to take effect.
After the revocation, the White House said that it had canceled the memo “to put an end to all confusion on the federal policy created by the decision of the court and the dishonest media coverage”.
Trump said he wanted to “correct any confusion that the media deliberately and in one way or another, for any reason”, the addition of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would not be affected by His frost.
“We simply examine parts of the large bureaucracy where there has been huge waste, fraud and abuse,” he said.
The president’s comments once came after the White House expressed clarifications on the programs affected by his payment frost.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that Trump’s order on Wednesday to review federal funding to align her on her Maga program “would remain in force and. . . will be rigorously implemented by all agencies and departments ”.
Wednesday’s reversal was a blow for Trump under two weeks after a second term. His team wanted to be free of the type of political reversal that characterized the first months of his first presidency.
Republican officials, including the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, had joined democratic legislators and state officials to oppose frost.
But the U-turn will be embarrassing for the Republicans of the Chamber who defended the freezing of Trump funding during their retirement in Florida.
The president has published dozens of decrees since his entry into office while he is trying to execute a plan to deregulate the American economy and reduce the size of the federal government. Orders have included blocks on federal support for foreign aid and domestic own energy.
The Democrats said that the revocation of its original memo one day after its publication marked an early failure of the policy by the new administration.
Chuck Schumer, the best democrat in the American Senate, said that “the Americans retaliated and that Donald Trump fell” and that the president had “failed in this tactic”.
Hakeem Jeffries, the most upscale democrat in the House of Representatives, wrote on the Bluesky social media platform that “Round One goes to Team America. We remain in the ring until extreme right extremism is completely and completely eliminated. »»
