A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

Let’s start, though, with the most closely watched senator of the moment.

After Trump's second week in office, the future of government jobs and their functions are up in the air.

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said she believes that a federal grant assistance freeze now under a court-ordered pause has ...

Give Trump some credit. He has no interest in faking empathy, as Biden did so ineptly. In Trump’s playbook, empathy is a ...

The Trump administration likely violated federal law with a controversial directive that aimed to pause spending on ...

A second federal judge has ordered a temporary pause in Trump administration efforts to freeze federal funding in the latest ...

President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, and issued numerous executive orders later that afternoon. Many of these executive ...

A judge sided with a coalition of 22 states and temporarily blocked a federal aid funding freeze directed by the White House ...

The decision came in response to a petition by attorneys general in 22 states and Washington, D.C., seeking to block the ...

U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from enforcing its halt ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island has placed a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's planned freeze on federal funds and grants.