The White House claims Wednesday, which is the Office for Management and Budget (OMB) to the Office for Management and Budget (Omb) Completion of a controversial order This has frozen a wide number of financial support from the federal government, is actually not an end to the containment of state expenditure.
“This is not a withdrawal of the freezing of federal financing. It is simply a resignation of the omb memos. Why? To end any confusion that arises from the court’s injunction. The EO of the President about federal financing remain in full power and in effect and are implemented rigorously, ”Karoline Leavitt, press spokesman for the White House said on the social media platform X.
Leavitt referred to the omb memo Exhibited Monday evening The federal authorities instructed to temporarily pause “all activities in connection with the obligation or payment of all financial support from the federal government”, while the government carries out a review to ensure that the expenditure of President Trump’s agenda corresponds.
Trump accused the media for the confusion about Monday evening memo on Wednesday afternoon and said that his administration had already been able to identify state waste, including the training of initiatives as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and for “authorized payments Foreign organizations ”. “”
“In order to correct the confusion that the media have been deliberately and somehow created for some reason – social security, medicar and medicaid are not affected by a measure that we take in any way, in any way or form. We only look at parts of the great bureaucracy in which there was enormous waste, fraud and abuse, ”said Trump.
“I could stand here all day and tell you a lot of things we found. … These were the payments and types of payments affected by the temporary freezing, ”he added.
In a long explanation, Leavitt described that Trump has targeted certain types of expenses through Executive Orders last week, and that the memo resignation on Wednesday means that the White House is still planning to block these means. This includes programs like The initiatives In the federal government and The World Health Organizationfrom the Trump.
“In view of the injunction, OMB has lifted the memo to end every confusion of the federal guidelines generated by the court ruling and the dishonest media reporting. The executive regulations issued by the President via financing reviews remain fully in force and effect and are strictly implemented by all agencies and departments, ”said Leavitt in a statement.
She also called for an end to the legal steps against the first memo after the US district judge Loren Alikhan temporarily blocked Freezing Trump on federal aid minutes before it came into force on Tuesday afternoon.
“This lawsuit should effectively end the legal proceedings and enable the government to concentrate on the enforcement of the president’s orders when checking the federal expenditure. In the coming weeks and months, further measures by the executive will continue to end the outrageous waste of federal financing, ”said Leavitt.
The press spokesman was questioned on Tuesday about the legality of freezing and said that it was “certainly within the borders of the law”, and claims that the president’s authority is to freeze the financing.
you too emphasized these programs The provision of direct advantages for Americans such as Medicare, Social Insurance and the Supplementary Nutritional Aid program was not influenced by the break and the focus was on the state expenditure on Trump’s agenda.
