Inside 45 hours of chaos: The brief life and quick death of Trump’s federal spending freeze

Jeremy Herb
Phil Mattingly
Jeff Zeleny

   

By Jeremy HerbPhil MattinglyJeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN

 8 minute read 

Published 6:17 PM EST, Wed January 29, 2025

The White House.

The White House. POOLWashingtonCNN — 

The Trump administration’s biggest swing at radically reshaping federal spending lasted just under 45 hours.

sweeping freeze on trillions in federal spending for grants and loans, issued Monday night by the White House budget office to federal agencies without fanfare, sparked outrage and confusion – even among fellow Republicans. The impact touched all corners of the country, with state Medicaid funding portals briefly shuttered and programs like Meals on Wheels and Head Start scrambling to figure out if they were about to lose their funding.

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DeepSeek is giving the world a window into Chinese censorship and information control

Analysis by Simone McCarthy, CNN

 7 minute read 

Published 9:19 PM EST, Wed January 29, 2025

This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing this month.

This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing this month. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty ImagesHong KongCNN — 

Previously little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines and app charts in recent days thanks to its new AI chatbot, which sparked a global tech sell-off that wiped billions off Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and shattered assumptions of America’s dominance of the tech race.

But those signing up for the chatbot and its open-source technology are being confronted with the Chinese Communist Party’s brand of censorship and information control.

Ask DeepSeek’s newest AI model, unveiled last week, to do things like explain who is winning the AI race, summarize the latest executive orders from the White House or tell a joke and a user will get similar answers to the ones spewed out by American-made rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama or Google’s Gemini.

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