But the spending freeze – along with other key moves early ... Trump was seeking to redirect or halt funding already appropriated by Congress. “It is a direct challenge against Congress ...

In court filings, California state and local officials have described “chaos” erupting after the Trump administration initiated a federal funding freeze ... through Congress, will be devastating.

The judge, Brian E. Murphy, said Wednesday that Trump officials had given the deportees “plainly insufficient” time to ...

Although the freeze exempted public safety workers, federal wildland firefighters were not covered by the exemption. Multiple Democratic members of Congress are demanding the Trump administration ...

ordering the Trump administration to allow federal funding appropriated by Congress for health care, child care, law enforcement and more to flow. “The executive’s categorical freeze of ...

Republicans in Congress — and the White House — are hoping to pay for big tax cuts in part by imposing levies on wealthy ...

Can the president freeze funds already promised by Congress? NPR's Michel Martin speaks ... that the president has that have to be taken into account. For example, to make exceptions to the ...

Previous reporting: A sudden freeze on federal spending by the Trump ... “This action takes the power of the purse away from Congress, violates the separation of powers, and is already causing ...

City officials in New Haven thought they’d been left in the lurch after President Donald Trump called for a federal funding freeze last ... a federal Treasury account containing the money ...

will still be delivered despite a freeze in the law that created the funding source. The recently allocated money to Utah and tribal entities in the state may also help improve water functions in ...