But the plaintiffs have presented evidence that the blanket freeze imposed by the memo appears to remain in effect regardless. On Wednesday, the White House press secretary declared on social ...

White House defends funding freeze The Independent has contacted the White House and OMB for comment. Since its inception, the funding freeze has been marked with confusion. Last week, facing ...

A U.S. judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from instituting a sweeping freeze ...

U.S. District Judge Loren Alikhan sided with a group of nonprofit organizations, saying that a freeze on federal assistance "may be crossing a constitutional line." ...

The judge cited the potential “catastrophic” impacts of Trump’s plan and on Monday issued an order preventing new restrictions.

She noted that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that the freeze would continue even as the OMB memo enacting it was withdrawn. “It appears that OMB sought to overcome ...

Nearly $2 billion in federal funding is being withheld from Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker and lawmakers said in a letter ...

A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked the Trump administration’s freeze of federal funding, dealing a stark blow to President Trump’s sweeping efforts to realign government spending with ...

Dan Bishop, a former House lawmaker, said he expects the White House to avoid cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

WASHINGTON — A federal in D.C. issued a temporary restraining order Monday barring the government from instituting a funding freeze ordered in a controversial memo from the White House last week.

On January 29, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded M-25-13, which it had issued two days earlier, and which required federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities ...

The Trump administration has moved into its next phase in shrinking the federal workforce by asking federal agencies to ...