The White House memo issued late Monday led to chaos and confusion as to what programs would be impacted by the freeze.

The ideas being proposed could amount to more than $2 trillion of cuts to the countrys public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans over the next decade and could potentially push millions of people off the program.

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

As director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought plans to implement the most critical parts of the new Trump agenda.

As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of the state’s limited water supply to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires. And if we don’t give him the money to put out his fires, he’s got problems.”

George Will, an anti-Trump columnist with The Washington Post, offered a scathing assessment ... payments and local funding to help rebuild the economy. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that $402.2 billion of the $1.9 trillion package ...

Congressional Democrats and good government groups say President Donald Trump 's Monday night directive to pause the distribution of trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans represents an immense power grab that would upend the constitutional separation of powers between different branches of government.

A new letter from Rhode Island's congressional delegates to the federal Office of Management and Budget asks the office to confirm that all previously approved funding for local projects will be released to the state.

Congressional Democrats are celebrating the White House rescinding a memorandum that announced a freeze on federal aid for dozens of programs as a Democratic takedown, with members being encouraged to keep highlighting the issue as a “Republican Ripoff.

The Trump administration has temporarily paused grant, loan and other financial assistance programs at the Office of Management and Budget, prompting criticism from congressional Democrats.

The administration rescinded its order for a spending review due to blowback. Republicans had not joined the chorus of critics, even though red states are heavily dependent on federal grants.

A new OMB memo appeared to say the freeze was reversed, but the White House said only the original memo was rescinded not the freeze itself.