The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.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.
“This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.”
Uh…What??
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.
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.
I’ve hit rock bottom once: I lost my job, went into bankruptcy, had to move back home with my folks, car was undriveable, and my girlfriend had gone back to her ex. It was, for all intents and purposes, the worst time of my life. I even failed joining the Army to escape my misery.
But, the beautiful thing about hitting rock bottom is that the only way to go from there is up. It was hard, and I had to rely on family and friends. But eventually I made it. I went to college, got my first developer job, got into a great (at the time) relationship, and moved out of my parent’s house and back on my own. I am better for it.
All of that to say that maybe (yes, I’m being optimistic) Trump is what this country needs to hit rock bottom, do some self reflection, and pull ourselves back up to a better place.
The biggest takeaway I learned way back when is that no matter how bad things get, the world keeps spinning. We can either we could sit out and watch the world move on without us, or get up and keep moving.
Rock bottom for a country means millions of people a year dying preventable deaths.
These kind of “experiments” have a name — “genocide”. Atleast that’s what the social engineering in Camodia and China ended up being called, due to the immense human loss resulting from them.
