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Is the flagrantly illegal federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration actually rescinded, or is only the OMB memo announcing it rescinded?

Stay tuned to America’s wackiest reality TV show, America 2025, to find out!

 Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt released a statement saying the federal government’s funding freeze is still in place. 

A memo from the Office of Management and Budget ordering an immediate freeze on federal funds and grants has sparked confusion and concern among national and local organizations, leading to multiple lawsuits.

The White House confirmed that OMB pulled the memo Wednesday in a two-sentence notice sent to agencies and departments, but said that Trump’s underlying executive orders targeting federal spending in areas like diversity, equity and inclusion and climate change, remained in place.

“OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President’s Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel,” the memo reads.

However, Press Sec. Leavitt tweeted “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.”

Administration officials said the decision to halt loans and grants was necessary to conduct a review to ensure that spending complies with Trump’s recent blitz of executive orders. Agencies had been directed to answer a series of yes or no questions on each federal program by Feb. 7. The questions included “Does this program promote gender ideology?” and “Does this program promote or support in any way abortion?”

Still, the vaguely worded memo, combined with incomplete answers from the White House throughout the day, left lawmakers, public officials and average Americans struggling to figure out what programs would be affected by the pause. Even temporary interruptions in funding could cause layoffs or delays in public services.

Somebody probably thinks it’s a super clever trick to moot the litigation by rescinding the memo while not rescinding the EO the memo was supposed to be operationalizing.

Somehow this will probably end up in front of Aileen Cannon.

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