Chaos and confusion after Trump's freeze on federal spending
The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle
MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, Trump's plan to freeze federal aid spending temporarily blocked by a judge during a chaotic rollout. |
| 0:07.9 | We'll break down what's next. |
| 0:09.5 | Then money power politics, Republicans head to the president's Doral Resort for their retreat. |
| 0:15.4 | Plus, Caroline Kennedy calls her cousin, RFK Jr. a predator. |
| 0:19.8 | The scathing letter, she wrote ahead of his Senate hearing tomorrow as the 11th hour gets |
| 0:24.6 | underway on this Tuesday night. |
| 0:32.4 | Good evening. |
| 0:33.4 | Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl. |
| 0:35.0 | Hope you have got seatbelts on over those pajamas because it is day |
| 0:38.9 | nine of the second Trump administration. And right now, officials around the country are wondering |
| 0:44.0 | how much longer they'll have the federal funding they need to do things like responding to |
| 0:49.3 | natural disasters and fighting crime. Last night, the White House issued a two-page document freezing billions of |
| 0:55.6 | dollars in federal spending. Several groups immediately sued, and today a judge temporarily |
| 1:00.9 | blocked the order, but only till Monday. The sweeping freeze was set to take effect at 5 p.m. |
| 1:06.5 | Eastern today. And if you're wondering, what does any of this mean? Does it include services that are crucial |
| 1:11.9 | to me or somebody in my family? Could it affect my job or my workplace? These are all great |
| 1:16.6 | questions. And here's the problem. No one seems to have a clear answer to any of them. But my colleague |
| 1:22.5 | Garrett Hague starts us off tonight with what we do know. Tonight, in a blow to the administration, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the president's |
| 1:31.2 | attempt at another government shakeup. |
| 1:33.5 | After the Office of Management and Budget overnight ordered a temporary pause on grant, loan, |
| 1:38.7 | or federal financial assistance programs that might run counter to President Trump's executive |
| 1:43.4 | orders. |
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