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Trump’s Orders to Freeze All Federal Spending This Week Have Republican Governors in a Bind

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    • 88:88
      We will not be able to make our next payroll, which means 140 people are going to probably be without jobs, not be able to have money to buy food, not be able to have money to pay their child care expenses,
      Esquire
      says Kimberly Grandstaff, the CFO of the Institute for Community Alliances
    • 88:88
      Elon Musk
      A fork in the road.”
      Guardian
      When Musk fired 80% of Twitter’s employees on taking over the firm in 2022, he used the same language that headed this week’s memo to federal employees
    • 88:88
      This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,
      Axios
      said U.S. District Judge John Coughenour of Seattle, who put a temporary stay on Trump's plans
    • 88:88
      While we hope this will enable millions of people in communities across the country to breathe a sigh of relief, we condemn the Trump-Vance administration’s harmful and callous approach of unleashing chaos and harm on the American people,
      CNN
      said Skye Perryman, the chief executive of Democracy Forward, one of the groups that filed the legal action
    • 88:88
      It’s understandable given the first week that career officials are going to be cautious about doing something that isn’t aligned with the administration’s intent,
      CNN
      one senior GOP congressional aide who had been in constant conversations with agency officials, told CNN
    • 88:88
      Kinda runs counter to whole reason Trump’s guys are taking a blow torch to federal workers up and down agency organizational charts, doesn’t it?”
      CNN
      the aide
    • 88:88
      Those were our reference points to the universe of what was affected by the memo,
      CNN
      one senior career agency management official said
    • 88:88
      We were in the dark, like everyone else,
      CNN
      a Republican senator told CNN, speaking of the freeze on the condition of anonymity to avoid alienating the West Wing
    • 88:88
      We are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse,
      CNN
      Trump said during his first bill-signing ceremony on an unrelated immigration law
    • 88:88
      Stephen Miller (political advisor)
      I can’t help it if left-wing media outlets published a fake news story that caused confusion,
      CNN
      Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday
    • 88:88
      Karoline Leavitt
      This action should effectively end the court case and allow the government to focus on enforcing the president’s orders on controlling federal spending,
      CNN
      White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday
    • 88:88
      Only a couple trillion or so off, I guess
      CNN
      one official told CNN, referencing the actual number – $6.75 trillion – published by the US government
    • 88:88
      We haven’t won this fight, don’t get me wrong, but see that we can have some real impact,
      CNN
      he said
    • 88:88
      I don't think that those programs are safe,
      The Independent
      he said of agricultural programs geared at racial equity
    • 88:88
      We’re really, really, really counting on grant funds coming both from the state and federal government,
      The Independent
      said John C. Young, a former water executive who was appointed to oversee the city’s water and sewer department
    • 88:88
      Tim Kaine
      He doesn’t have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy,
      CNN
      Kaine said, noting
    • 88:88
      We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. $50 million. And you know what’s happened to them? They’ve used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?”
      CNN
      Here’s what Trump said at the White House on Wednesday, when he was listing off his first-week accomplishments
    • 88:88
      Donald Trump
      Just for clarification purposes, because it was incorrectly reported yesterday, we have informed the federal workforce, which they’ve looked to do for many years, that if they’re working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule. We don’t want them. We don’t want them to work from home because, as everyone knows, most of the time they’re not working.”
      CNN
      What Trump says
    • 88:88
      Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,
      CNN
      he said
    • 88:88
      Karoline Leavitt
      In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage,
      HuffPost
      Leavitt said in the statement