Stephen Miller fights Jake Tapper in the narrative of the ‘false’ media about Federal Aid Freeze

The White House National Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, blocked the horns with CNN Jake Tuesday host on Tuesday, arguing that liberal news organizations have misrepresented the freezing of the Trump administration of certain federal funds.

He The Office of Administration and Budget issued a Memo On Monday, he pauses all federal subsidies and loans inconsistent with the president’s executive orders to eradicate the “Wokeness” and the “Government weapon.”

However, said a White House official Fox News Digital that the memorandum was initially “poorly informed” and does not constitute a freezing of funds in federal financial assistance in all areas.

Tapper pressed to Miller to respond because of the uncertainty surrounding the guide, asking if Medicaid and the foods on wheels would be affected, although both had been confirmed that he was exempt earlier in the day.

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Miller argued that any confusion about the memorandum was “created by the media” and said: “The OMB orientation note, if you read it, is as clear as the day.”

He stressed that freezing does not apply to the rights or other services that the Government must provide, saying: “It does not affect any service to citizens, it does not affect any individual benefit, any public assistance program or anything of that nature” .

“I can’t help it if left -wing media published false news that caused confusion,” said Miller.

“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said Tapper, pointing to Republicans who have also recognized the confusion about the memorandum.

Tapper said the order is “quite broad and confusingly written” and that confusion cannot blame “liberal media.”

“A false story was issued to which people responded,” Miller argued.

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“As the memorandum says, in black and white letters, the financial benefits programs for Americans are not affected. Individual assistance programs are not affected. It is there in black and white” White House Officer later added. “We always knew that the media were going to turn false stories, to try to create controversy, try to create scandal. I am not telling you, Jake.”

When Tapper spoke again about public confusion regarding this initiative, Miller replied: “I regret that the media have falsely informed about this story.”

“I don’t know what you are talking about in terms of false reports. It is a widely written executive order,” Tapper argued.

“You are combining two different things,” Miller said in explaining that after Trump’s executive orders last week, left -wing civil service employees were trying to finance their “pet projects” with discretionary subsidies, so it was written OMB orientation to avoid this. .

“You would not believe the payments that we have had to stop in recent days with bureaucrats trying to channel money outside the door,” he said, saying that these projects must be a political review process to be responsible for taxpayers.

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“Or Donald Trump obtains political control over this government and ends the waste, abuse and fraud in the American people, or let the bureaucrats be the federal expense of the pilot,” said Miller.

Danielle Wallace of Fox News contributed to this report.