{"id":16248,"date":"2025-01-30T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16248"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:44:20","slug":"white-house-walks-back-funding-freeze-after-a-day-of-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16248","title":{"rendered":"White House walks back funding freeze after a day of confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. Leavitt said that other executive orders on \u201cfunding reviews\u201d would remain in effect and that more would follow. \u201cThis action should effectively end the court case and allow the government to focus on enforcing the President\u2019s orders on controlling federal spending. In the coming weeks and months, more executive action will continue to end the egregious waste of federal funding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original memo would have paused the disbursement of federal grants and financial assistance programs, but its ambiguity and breadth led to a scramble for answers on what exactly would be impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/602016\/white-house-funding-freeze-memo-rescinded\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/602016\/white-house-funding-freeze-memo-rescinded<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect.<br \/>\n\u201cIn light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. Leavitt said that other executive orders on \u201cfunding reviews\u201d would remain in effect and that more would follow. \u201cThis action should effectively end the court case and allow the government to focus on enforcing the President\u2019s orders on controlling federal spending. In the coming weeks and months, more executive action will continue to end the egregious waste of federal funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original memo would have paused the disbursement of federal grants and financial assistance programs, but its ambiguity and breadth led to a scramble for answers on what exactly would be impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/602016\/white-house-funding-freeze-memo-rescinded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,161,167,1193,170],"class_list":["post-16248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-funding","tag-government","tag-government-spending","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16250,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}