Subject: Re: Medicaid
What they thought was, "Hey, no one vetted this language - so now I have an order from OMB that defines the programs that have to be shut down in a way that includes Medicaid, even if that's not what they meant to tell me to do." But they also know that they have to follow the OMB's actual instructions - not just decide on their own what the Administration's priorities "ought" to be. So everyone was in chaos.

This is nonsense on stilts. And a great argument for cleaning out government of people who act without thinking.