Democrats’ response this week to President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze all federal grants and loans already approved by Congress was a rare moment of swift, unified and urgent condemnation.

Donald Trump’s move to pause trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans awakened widespread Democratic resistance to the new president’s second term that was felt Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in governors’ offices and in the race to helm the party’s national committee.

The Trump administration retreated from its attempt to freeze trillions of dollars allocated by Congress, including grants, loans and financial assistance, after triggering a national uproar and a rap on the knuckles from a federal judge who partially blocked the potentially unconstitutional edict before it could take effect.