By Matthew Continetti, Patriot Post, February 1, 2025
Matthew Continetti is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the founding editor of The Washington Free Beacon. For more from the Free Beacon, sign up free of charge for the Morning Beacon email.
When draining the swamp, bring a map and flashlight.
I haven’t seen Chuck Schumer so happy in months. There he was Wednesday, practically ready to burst into song while celebrating the Trump administration’s withdrawal of a memo ordering a federal spending freeze.
“Americans made their voices heard,” Schumer crowed. “Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order.”
Schumer was too giddy to tell the full story. On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed federal agencies to stop spending money, with exceptions for entitlements, defense, and direct support for individuals, until grants-in-aid programs were aligned with the president’s agenda.
The document’s broad language resulted in confusion. Democrats stoked the outrage. A federal judge enjoined the order. Before long, the White House rescinded the OMB directive—though not, said press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the president’s earlier executive orders on DEI and the Green New Deal….
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