WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.

The White House received more than 7,000 press pass applications after Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, revealed that “new media” would be welcomed to a briefing room in the West Wing. The influx of applications came just one day after Leavitt announced the president’s desire to engage with “the new media landscape,

The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.

The freeze on hundreds of billions of dollars of federal grants had been temporarily halted by a judge on Tuesday.

The OMB memo had directed federal agencies to pause grants and loans pending a review of compliance with the agenda of President Donald Trump.

The new memorandum, just two sentences long, will allow agencies to continue their normal operations after uncertainty over the impact of the initial directive caused widespread chaos across government. It followed a temporary injunction by a federal judge that prevented the original Office of Management and Budget memo from taking effect.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reports on President Donald Trump signing the Laken Riley Act into law and the White House rescinding a memo freezing federal funds on 'Special Report.

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is on hold for now, on the order of a federal judge.

The White House rescinded an order today that froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans in an effort to purge the government of what President Trump has called a “woke” ideology. The directive had been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

The Laken Riley Act is now law and it will require law enforcement to detain and potentially deport undocumented immigrants who are accused of theft-related crimes. President Donald Trump held a signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House.