The White House has officially rescinded the memo issued on Monday that would have put a complete pause on all federal loans and grants, not including direct assistance to Americans. The memo was supposed to go into effect yesterday, but it was, thankfully, blocked by a federal judge.
There are a few factors that most likely inspired this move:
Yesterday, a group of non-profits sued the Trump Administration to block the memo, the lawsuit required a judge to issue an emergency injunction to temporarily block the memo
It was illegal and unconstitutional to stop federal assistance that Congress granted and violates long-standing law
It was illegal and unconstitutional so now the weasels in his Project 2025 think tank are coming up with a law-abiding way to take away federal funds
In response to this grand overreach of power Democrats did...basically nothing. In what can only be described as a useless symbolic gesture, 22 Senate Democrats switched their confirmation votes to 'No' on relatively uncontroversial Trump nominee Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation on Tuesday. Cool?
The initial issuing of the memo caused significant public outcry against the Trump Administration and has sparked fears that government funding for programs like Head Start, Medicaid, and more could be in danger of being cut or even completely frozen at the whims of the Trump administration.
UPDATE: The White House press has since flipped saying they haven’t rescinded the pause on federal funding but just the memo. This is causing confusion since there are mixed messages causing a judge to implement a restraining order preventing the freeze officially. Will this work? Who knows! We're in wholly uncharted territory with the Trump administration.
The Trump administration seems to be doing everything it can to get sued, probably in the hopes that it makes it to the conservative-stacked Supreme Court for a decision.
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