Democrats Lose Their Minds Over Trump's Funding Freeze, Then Flat-Out Lie About Its Impact
Despite Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's more than precise outlining of what was and was not affected by President Donald Trump's executive order freezing funding for federal grants, loans, and other financial programs pending agency review, along with a memorandum from the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) outlining the same, Democrats took this opportunity to rail against dictator Trump, fearmonger, and have an absolute meltdown.
The detailed memorandum was even distributed to the White House press corps.
Full memo here - outlining what is and isn’t impacted by OMB pause on federal funds for a period of review
Document shows pause is not across the board, but limited to programs impacted by executive orders such as ending DE, the Green New Deal, and NGOs that “undermine the national interest”
But Democrats decided they had been quiet long enough, and this EO's deadline of Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. was the perfect opening to pounce.
In other words, it's another day ending in "Y."
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was one of the first out the gate.
Her governor, "Tampon" Tim Walz, crawled out from under his rock of shame to be of use to his party... or something.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took to video to not just rail about Medicaid and cancer research, but to bring up for the eleventy-millionth time Trump's pardoning of the J6 prisoners.
UPDATE: Federal Judge Issues Stay of Trump's Funding Freeze
The supposed damage done by Trump's actions started resembling a game of telephone: As the lies were passed down the line, they became increasingly damaging and incredibly outrageous. Exhibit A: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who took it from Medicaid and SNAP benefits going away to hospitals shutting down and vital services crippled. Constitutional crisis!
And lest she miss a chance to dial it to 11, Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) sounded the hysterics and invited her constituents to be hysterical with her.
As though it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, the Medicaid websites in several states went dark for no apparent reason.
While some legacy media outlets were honest brokers and shared the news, others ramped it up to DEFCON2.
While it cannot yet be proven, the most likely reason for this system-wide outage was that some industrious bureaucrat resister decided to shut down the website to prove the point that this freeze was dangerous and a threat to democracy.
This is perfectly normal and acceptable behavior—said no one ever. Democrats knew that lawsuits had been filed by the non-profits that would be affected. Right on schedule, a Biden-appointed judge issued an administrative stay on existing funding while allowing the pause to remain in effect as to any new spending.
But as former Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," and Democrats have certainly taken this to heart. They are probably taking credit for the judge's quick action, and they may have played some role in it. But the desperation is palpable. The old playbook is no longer working as effectively as it used to, and they know they have very few plays left.
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