Collins, Senate Appropriations chair, calls OMB funding pause ‘far too sweeping’
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, called a new memo from the White ...
RFK Jr.’s VP Pick Vows Revenge on Senators Who Vote Against Him
Senators voting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as health secretary on Wednesday have been put on notice. Nicole ...
Trump’s spending freeze roils Capitol Hill
The Trump administration’s expansive freeze on federal grants and other executive spending roiled Washington on Tuesday, ...
US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
It was a few minutes before news broke that a judge had blocked the Trump administration's freeze on federal funding. In his ...
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Trump administration memo announces abrupt freeze on broad swath of federal payments
The Trump administration will temporarily stop payments on multiple federal programs Tuesday evening, cutting off Americans who rely on what could be trillions in funding and setting off a legal ...
Funding freeze sparks Democratic uproar as party grapples with how to take on Trump
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 ...
Playbook: Trump’s massive power grab
The memo, issued by the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Matthew Vaeth, said all federal spending must be aligned with “Presidential priorities,” and cited Trump’s ...