From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi and this is the Daily
On Tuesday,
President Donald Trump made one of the most audacious moves since he took office last week,
freezing trillions of dollars in federal money, everything from anti poverty programs to foreign aid,
in order to purge the government of what he called woke ideology.
Today, my colleague, White House reporter Mike Scheer on that order,
the chaos that it prompted, and whether it is likely to survive in court.
It's Wednesday, January 29th.
So, Mike, President Trump has done something pretty remarkable.
All of Washington, where you are right now is talking about it.
I'm wondering if you can lay out for listeners exactly what he did and what's unfolded in the days since.
Right.
It really was remarkable.
Essentially late in the day on Monday, President Trump's budget office,
which is called the Office of Management and Budget, it reports, reports directly to the President.
They put out a memo, a really short memo.
It was just two pages, but it essentially exploded in Washington the minute it went out.
Because what it did was it said
that every single federal program that involves the delivery of money in the form of a grant
or in the form of a loan to any organization,