How Trump’s Vaunted Smash-and-Grab Plan Crashed and Burned
His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that the minds behind MAGA 2.0 are still a slopcore mess.
by Matt Ford
The second Trump administration is now two weeks old. Things are off to a rocky start. On Monday evening, the White House Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, sent out a two-page memo to all federal agencies directing them to freeze all federal financial assistance programs to eliminate any perceived left-win…
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