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Donald Trump has scraped his command to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars of federal financing in Germany after a widespread counter -reaction.
On Wednesday, the office for management and the budget of the White House published a two-line memo to departments and agencies of the executive, in which he explained that the original plan had been dropped.
The U -turn came a day after the original order had triggered a day of political chaos and the confusion among politicians of both parties who dealt with how their states were affected by critical federal services, including support for the poor and the elderly.
A federal judge Blocked the freezing Only a few minutes on Tuesday before it became effective.
After the revocation, the White House said that the memo had lifted “to end the court ruling of the Federal Directive and the dishonest reporting on the media”.
Trump card said he wanted to “correct any confusion that the media were deliberately and somehow created for some reason”, and Medicare and Medicaid would not be affected by his freezing.
“We only look at parts of the great bureaucracy in which there was enormous waste, fraud and abuse,” he said.
The president’s comments came a day after the White House had clarified which programs would be affected by freezing the payment of payments.
The press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, insisted on Wednesday to review Trump’s command, check the federal financing in order to reconcile it with his Maga agenda, remain in full force and “. . . is strictly implemented by all agencies and departments. ”
The reversal on Wednesday was a blow to trump out less than two weeks after a second term. His team wanted to be free from the political reversal that characterized the early months of his first presidency.
Republican officials, including the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, had voted the democratic legislator and state officials against freezing.
But the U -turn will be uncomfortable for home republicans who defended Trump’s funding freezing during their retreat to Florida.
The President has issued numerous executive contracts since the reinforcement of official investments, while trying to carry out a plan for the deregulation of the US economy and reduce the size of the federal government. The orders included blocks to support the federal government for the support of the federal government Foreign help And domestic clean energy.
The Democrats said that the revocation of its original memos only one day after its edition of the new government to an early political failure.
Chuck Schumer, the top democrat in the US Senate, said: “The Americans have repelled and Donald Trump had withdrawn” and the president “failed in this tactic”.
Hakeem Jeffries, the highest democrat in the House of Representatives, wrote on the social media platform Bluesky: “Round the first goes to Team America. We stay in the ring until right -wing extremism is completely and completely switched off. “
