From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily.

This week, President Donald Trump made one of the most audacious moves since he took office, 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 Shear, 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 day 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 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, any entity across the country had to be paused.

And I'm just going to read directly from the memo, and it said,

the use of federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal

social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day

lives of those we serve. It said that all of the agencies

had to pause the funds while they reviewed whether the programs in question, the loans and

the grants, were, quote, consistent with the president's policies. Okay, so basically the memo is

saying all these federal funds go out to all of these programs all over the country,

they need to be put on hold to make sure that none of them are actually at odds with the

administration's agenda. That's right. And this is a lot of money, according to the

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