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Today, the White House rescinded the memo issued late on Jan. 27 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that froze upwards of $3 trillion in federal loans and grants. As explained today in a special OMB fact sheet, the original order was issued to “determine quickly whether any program was inconsistent with the President’s Executive Orders” which target “wokism” embedded in any government programs.

The order, however, provoked such mass confusion and panic around the country that funding would be cut for such programs as Medicaid, Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), pre-school education, community health programs and many more, that the White House acted quickly today to rescind it. Moreover, yesterday U.S. Judge Loren Alikhan of the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the administration’s freeze order. The New York Times reported Jan. 28 that Judge Alikhan’s ruling was a response to a lawsuit filed by the leftist Democracy Forward group which argued that the OMB order violated both the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act, a law that governs the Executive branch’s rule-making authorities.

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