Stephen Miller struggles with Jake Tapper on a ‘false’ media narrative of federal assistance
White Homeland Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller locked the horns on Tuesday with host CNN Jake Tapper, claiming that the liberal newspaper organizations mistakenly presented the freezing of Trump administration of certain federal funds.
AND The Management and Budget Office issued a letter On Monday, pausing all federal support and loans that are not in line with the president’s executive commands to eradicate “wockery” and “weapons of government”.
However, an official of the White House said Fox News Digital That the memorandum was initially “wrongly reported” and does not represent the freezing of funding for federal financial assistance throughout the Committee.
Tapper pressed Miller to answer the uncertainty of the guidelines, asking if Medicaid and the meals on the wheels were affected, although they were both confirmed that they had been excluded earlier during the day.
White Homeland Homeland Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller locked the horns with host CNN Jake Tapper on the recent white house initiative.
Miller claimed that every confusion about the memory of the media was created by the media and said, “The Memo to run OMB, if you read it, is clear as a day.”
He emphasized that freezing does not apply to the rights or other services that the government must provide, saying, “This does not affect any service to citizens, this does not affect any individual benefit, any public aid program or anything on nature.”
“I can’t help it if left -wing media published a false news that caused confusion,” Miller said.
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” Tapper said, pointing to Republicans who also acknowledged the confusion about the memoranda.
Tapper said that the “pretty wide and confusingly written” command, “and the confusion around him cannot only be to blame for the” liberal media “.
“A false story was exposed to people reacted,” Miller claimed.
The White House was photographed from Lafayette Park on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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“As the memorandum says, in black and white letters, no programs of financial benefits are affected by Americans. They did not affect individual assistance programs. There is black and white” White house He later added the official. “We have always known that the media will start false stories, try to create a controversy, try to create a scandal. I’m not telling you, strong.”
When Tapper spoke again about the public confusion regarding this initiative, Miller replied: “I’m sorry the media falsely reported this story.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about in terms of false reporting. It’s a widely written executive order,” Tapper claimed.
“You include two different things,” Miller said as he explained that after Trump’s executive commands last week, employees of left -wing civil services were trying to finance their “pet projects” with discretioned supports, so OMB guidelines were written to prevent it.
“You would not believe that the payments we had to pause in the last few days with bureaucrats were trying to empty the money from the door,” he claimed, saying that these projects should pass under the political examination process that should be responsible by the taxpayers responded to them .
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“Either Donald Trump gets political control over this Government and ends waste, abuse and fraud to the American people, or we let the bureaucrats of federal consumption on autopilot,” Miller said.
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
