The Trump administration is spurring confusion as it seeks to implement a sweeping freeze of federal assistance, undermining laws Congress has enacted in recent years. The White House budget ...

By Mattathias Schwartz and Benjamin Oreskes A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Tuesday evening temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to freeze as much as $3 trillion ...

On Monday, the Trump administration claimed the authority to unilaterally freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending, an action that would have effectively shut down thousands of ...

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a stay against a White House directive that ordered a spending freeze on federal assistance, which sent Washington and organizations around the country into chaos ...

President Trump’s directive is supposed to exempt national security and public safety positions, but the F.B.I. has put an immediate hiring freeze in place. By Adam Goldman The F.B.I. has taken ...

President Donald Trump’s budget office Monday ordered a total freeze on “all federal financial assistance” that could be targeted under his previous executive orders pausing funding for a ...

The interruption had sparked outcry from state governments, nonprofits and lawmakers in the wake of the Trump administration's move to freeze spending across the federal government. After legal ...

A memo ordering the halting of federal funding was released on Monday night from Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The freeze goes into ...

In seeking to institute a freeze, the White House illustrated in the starkest terms to date that Trump would be willing to push the limits of the president’s purview over the budget. The ...

Now, on to the news. In a memo to federal agencies yesterday, the White House Office of Management and Budget ordered a freeze on all federal grants and loans, potentially affecting trillions of ...

State Medicaid programs across the country reported Tuesday they had lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. By the late ...

Meanwhile, a group of nonprofits already filed a lawsuit over the grant freeze, including groups who receive such funding.