Feb. 7 A group of states that sued Trump over last week’s sweeping federal grant freeze alleged in a filing they “continue to be denied access to federal funds” even though a judge put the freeze on hold, claiming “scattershot outages” have cut them off from accessing several Biden-era grant programs.

A federal judge on Thursday extended the deadline for federal workers to accept the Trump administration’s sweeping buyout offer. The court will weigh the merits of the bid to block the