OMB freezes all DOMESTIC and foreign disbursements | OMB order rescinded (but maybe not?) - BUT - EO still stands (trying to get around stay?)

CarolinaFever said:
How are they going to try to spin this as anything other than a massive screwup?
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Looks like they're blaming the media for now.


Though White House aides publicly blamed the media for causing the confusion, arguing that none existed within the building, the administration had received a flood of calls from lawmakers and state officials with questions about its impact on their home states.
 
lawtig02 said:
Looks like they're blaming the media for now.


Though White House aides publicly blamed the media for causing the confusion, arguing that none existed within the building, the administration had received a flood of calls from lawmakers and state officials with questions about its impact on their home states.
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They'll never admit a mistake, but that doesn't mean we don't know one when we see one.

Worthwhile to remind ourselves of the MO:
The three rules of PR as taught by Roy Cohn to Donald Trump —​
  1. Attack! Attack! Attack!
  2. Admit nothing and deny everything.
  3. No matter what happens you claim victory and never admit defeat. You have to be willing to do anything to anyone.
 
Icky Mettle said:
They can just say they did it to own the libs. That will at least appeal to their base.
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I don't see how that works if they rescind it a day later. I know the whole point of doing it was out of pure pettiness and cruelty, but to have to go back a day later and rescind it because of blowback seems like a lot of egg on Trump's face.
 
There is a reason to have temporary heads of agencies issue their most aggressive (and aggressively broad) mandates — prod, check what you can get away with, blame the temp guys of you need to, refine and start again.

It may have also have been something they had to rescind to get Vought’s nomination through the Senate. I have read speculation that they planned to issue this order after his nomination was approved but expedited to change the news cycle from the stock market impact of DeepSeek. Not sure if I buy that but could see this mess needing to be cleaned up before Vought’s hearing.
 
CarolinaFever said:
I don't see how that works if they rescind it a day later. I know the whole point of doing it was out of pure pettiness and cruelty, but to have to go back a day later and rescind it because of blowback seems like a lot of egg on Trump's face.
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yeah, there's really no logical way to even attempt to spin this as anything other than a complete clusterfuck colossal failure but as we know, magaland is allergic to logic.

blaming the media and/or claiming that everyone (the media, local officials, state officials, federal officials, literally everyone!) lied about what happened is basically their white flag.
 
superrific said:
These are the problems that arise when the president tries to make law by means of documents that have no legal force. None of this stuff -- the EOs, the memos, or anything of the like -- is law. It's publicity.
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I wonder if they are trying to circumvent the stay (which was based on the OMB order)?
 
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