Defending the destructive spending plaguing the federal government appears to be what The New York Times does best, which explains its nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump taking scissors to Washington D.C.’s credit cards.
The Upshot staff over at The Times were up in arms over the Office of Budget and Management’s January 28 memo ordering a temporary freeze on funding for federal programs across the government. The Times railed that the order “caused widespread confusion among agency officials and organizations that rely on federal support, including states, schools, hospitals and other nonprofits.”
They listed 2,600 programs that were under review, but chose to highlight programs like Medicare and Head Start, which the Trump administration already insisted wouldn’t be affected.
As Fox 5 summarized in an explainer: “Any payment…
