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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. While President Trump's budget office has walked back a memo it put out freezing spending on federal grants, it's still not clear where things stand. The administration sparked widespread confusion before a federal judge intervened. NPR's Domenica Montanaro says don't expect the administration to slow down, though.
The idea is what you've seen. Make things unclear. Make people exhausted. Make it harder for the media to focus on one thing. And make it harder for the opposition to organize a message. around what to focus on. But the backlash to this spending freeze memo shows that there are limits to that kind of strategy.
Just because something is done fast doesn't necessarily mean it's the best way to run the government. And this is now the first major misstep by the Trump administration. But don't think this is going to mean any kind of dialing back.
NPR's Domenico Montanaro. President Trump, meanwhile, said he'll instruct the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. More from NPR's Jasmine Garz.
At the White House signing of the Lake and Riley Act on Immigration, President Trump announced he would be giving an executive order to prepare a 30,000-person facility at Guantanamo Bay to house deported migrants.
We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them.
The Trump administration has also indicated that it is negotiating an agreement with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. to accept deported migrants. Jasmine Garst, NPR News, New York.
Facebook parent Meta is agreeing to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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