Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) referred to as the Workplace of Administration and Price range (OMB)’s rescission of its funding freeze memo President Trump’s “first major loss” of his second White Home time period.
“This is Trump’s first major loss. When we fight, we win. We may not have majorities in the House and the Senate, but we DO have the power to loudly educate and mobilize against the mass looting the Trump admin is attempting against our veterans, healthcare, education, and more,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Wednesday submit on X, lower than an hour after the information concerning the reversal broke.
The Workplace of Administration and Price range (OMB) despatched out a memo Wednesday the place it rescinded an order that quickly halted “all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.”
The brand new memo, which was signed by Matthew Vaeth, the workplace’s performing director, was issued following a push from GOP lawmakers, The Hill reported. For the reason that funding freeze was instituted, Republican senators have obtained quite a few calls from constituents and neighborhood leaders, expressing concern and confusion over the lack of federal grants.
White Home spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt mentioned the reversal “is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.”
“Why? To end any confusion created by the court’s injunction,” she mentioned in Wednesday’s submit on X. “The President’s EO’s on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion is one other jab since Trump’s win over former Vice President Harris in November. She has turn into one of many president’s sharpest critics, going after a number of of his govt actions and skipping the Jan. 20 inauguration.
Her method to Trump is completely different from that of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) who met with the president earlier this month at Mar-a-Lago and confirmed openness to working with the commander-in-chief.
“She understands the importance of being seen doing and saying something. The alternative is letting Trump suck up all the media oxygen again, and that has proven disastrous for Dems,” one progressive Democratic commentator in New York instructed The Hill.
