By Toluse Olorunnipa Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email Bio Follow March 29 at 2:34 PM For President Trump, sometimes the easiest problems to solve are the ones created by his own policies.
On Thursday, Trump said he was reversing proposed funding cuts to the Special Olympics — after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and his reelection campaign spent days defending the cuts — which were outlined in the president’s own budget.
In June, after public outcry over Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy that forced the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents, the president signed an executive order to “maintain family unity” at the Southern border. In a statement, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy thanked Trump for taking “decisive action today to put people above politics” by reopening the government that he shut down.
In addition to claiming he wasn’t aware of the funding cuts to the Special Olympics — which have been in Trump’s last three spending proposals — the president announced Thursday that he was defying his own budget to support funding to clean up the Great Lakes. Trump’s mercurial approach to foreign policy and trade has also led to several whiplash reversals and last-minute rescues just before self-imposed deadlines.
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