Biden is reversing Trump’s last-minute attempt to freeze $ 27.4 billion in programs

President Biden sent a letter to Congressional leaders on Sunday expressing the former President TrumpDonald Trump Kelli Ward Rejects Request For Arizona GOP Race Audit Rifle Sales Rise Amid Pandemic Uncertainty, Biden’s Vow For Gun Reform Top Trump Impeachment Attorney Bowers Leaves Team: Reports MORElast-minute attempt to freeze $ 27.4 billion in government programs.

With less than a week to go, Trump had switched to freezing the billions in federal funding using a budget maneuver called dissolution.

“I am withdrawing 73 proposed repeals previously sent to Congress,” Biden said in the letter.

The 73 budget cuts Trump had called for were scattered across nearly every cabinet and largely matched his proposed domestic program spending cuts in the federal 2021 budget, which Congress rejected.

Trump had sent a letter to Congressional leaders on Jan. 14 asking for the dissolution, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and the Peace Corps.

Several Democrats in Congress, including the Speaker of the House Appropriations Rosa DeLauroRosa DeLauroCapitol Chief of Police apologizes, admits department failed in the riot. House Republicans Pledge Not To Support Spending Bills That Retract Hyde Amendment Democrats Eye Bill Providing Permanent Benefits Of At Least K Per Child MORE (D-Conn.), Rejected the president’s requests for budget cuts just before Biden’s inauguration.

Earlier in December, the former president had signed the $ 2.3 trillion government funding bill that included the most recent COVID-19 aid package, but had expressed dissatisfaction by saying he would ask for “wasteful items” to be removed.