Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s brazen attempt to suspend federal assistance to review whether certain programs are too woke has revived Democrats. (Watch the video below.)
“What Trump has done, again, wittingly or unwittingly, is to completely resuscitate the Democratic Party,” the MSNBC host said. “They were flat-lined spiritually, politically, basically since election night. And what he has done is they have suddenly woken up. They remember why they’re there. They’re there to make government work the way it’s supposed to work. They’re there to keep their promises to all voters, whether they voted for them or not.”
A judge temporarily blocked Trump’s attempt on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Trump administration withdrew a memo from the Office of Management and Budget that paused federal assistance grants after Democratic backlash.
A constitutional battle has been brewing over whether the president had the authority to withhold funds approved by Congress.
Wallace said Trump would have had to deal with Republican governors and other pols whose constituents benefit from the grants. “Republican governors are a lot closer to their constituents,” she said. “Sometimes they’re their neighbors.”
h/t Mediaite