Democrats declared victory for blunting Trump’s momentum while the White House insisted it isn’t backing down.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X that while the earlier memo had been rescinded, the president’s executive orders freezing foreign assistance and ending diversity equity ...

The White House on Wednesday rescinded its order to temporarily freeze the disbursement of all federal grants and loans, which created widespread confusion and prompted Democrats and news outlets ...

A federal judge said Wednesday he intends to issue a new block on President Donald Trump’s effort to freeze an enormous swath of federal spending, citing the White House’s contradictory ...

Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images WASHINGTON—A White House freeze on potentially trillions of dollars in government “financial assistance” was set to go into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s White House scrambled Tuesday to contain the confusion over a sweeping freeze of federal funds announced the night before, as many in Washington and around the country struggled ...

The White House's controversial federal grants and loans freeze appears to be over. A memo sent by Matthew J. Vaeth at the Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday, January 29, and addressed ...

On Wednesday, the Trump Office issued a brief statement saying the aid freeze had been "rescinded." Rafts of government aid programs and the health care system for millions of low-income Americans ...

The new order came shortly before a federal court hearing on a lawsuit filed by Democratic state attorneys general trying to stop the freeze. A White House official said the reversal was an ...

The White House is claiming the Wednesday move ... “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by ...