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The White House budget office rescinded a memo ordering a broad freeze on federal grants and loans after Republican senators ...

U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded an order to pause all federal grants and loans which caused panic at HBCUs. The 48 hours that the sweeping order was active created a flurry of lawsuits, panic at ...

A planned freeze on federal payments to nonprofits, small businesses and other organizations appears to have been reversed on Wednesday, after widespread alarm and calls for reversals from Democrats ...

U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The ...

WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday rescinded a far-reaching memo ordering a freeze to many federal disbursements — after a judge paused the order Tuesday evening. “OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is ...

Officials said the decision to halt loans and grants was necessary to ensure spending complies with recent executive orders.

President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded a memo freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it ...

The withdrawal of the federal freeze was a stunning about-face for President Donald Trump’s White House, which has so far ...

Democrats are taking credit for ginning up a public reaction to a funding “pause.” But this is just the first of many battles ...

The order that froze trillions of dollars of federal grants and loans was published without vetting by key officials in the ...

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is ...