Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings began Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee. He appears before the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal funding for a massive number of government programs seems to have impacted ...

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general announced legal action against the White House budget office Tuesday over ...

Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access ...

A late-night memo announcing a freeze on federal grants—and subsequent failures by the Trump White House to clarify the ...

The Trump administration offered some clarification after issuing a freeze on federal grants and loans. But many programs ...

Update: The White House has rescinded an original Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo, issued on Monday, that sought ...

A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid, ...

A federal judge has paused a sweeping new plan from the Trump administration to halt categories of federal spending.

Federal agencies, states and other organizations that receive money from the federal government are scrambling to understand ...

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