“The White House budget office rescinded a memo ordering a broad freeze on federal grants and loans after Republican senators ‘hit the ceiling’ over the order, which caught them completely by surprise and created confusion in their home states,” The Hill reports.
Said one GOP senator: “Republicans were starting to hit the ceiling because the state governments, people in our states were coming to us saying, ‘Wait, wait, wait, wait. What does this mean? Does it mean we’re going to lose funding for X, Y, Z?’”
Robert Reich: Trump unleashed chaos by freezing and unfreezing $3tn in federal grants and loans. Why?
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