The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.
Why it matters: It’s an astonishing reversal by the Trump administration, a day after top officials defended the funding freeze — which a judge temporarily halted on Tuesday — as necessary to ensure all government spending was aligned with the president’s vision.
The only backlash that matters in the end is the one that sees him hanging from his ankles in the middle of a town square. Until then, he’ll just try something else.
This matters though. It means my cousins lab gets funding back so they will be able to pay for power without which they would have lost millions in samples because the refrigeration would have died.