Schrodinger's Cat of federal funding freezes

Welcome to the Schrodinger's Cat of federal funding freezes. Courts
can't block something that doesn't exist -- so if they do away with
the piece of paper saying it exists, but everyone who needs to know
knows that it "does" still exist, does it still exist?

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social

1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.

2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.

3. OMB rescinded Monday's memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.

4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in
effect--and, for these purposes, irrelevant.

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