6 days ago · During her first White House press briefing, Leavitt could not immediately answer a question on whether Medicaid funding was included in the freeze. She later posted on X that the White House knew ...

6 days ago · Cramer acknowledged the initial memo may have generated too much political heat, with red and blue states raising alarms over the funding freeze. But the senator suggested Trump “maybe didn’t understand the breadth” of what had been proposed. But Democrats said the White House had overreached beyond what Americans want.

1 day ago · On Wednesday, the White House press secretary declared on social media that the retraction of the memo “is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze.”

6 days ago · The President’s EO’s on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media platform X.

6 days ago · White House response adds to confusion on federal funding freeze A new memo from the Office of Management and Budget appeared to say the freeze was reversed, but the White House said that only the ...

6 days ago · The White House had said that the funding freeze wouldn’t affect programs that send money to individual people, including Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, student loans and scholarships. If implemented, it was still expected to affect trillions of dollars and cause widespread disruption in a wide range of programs, from the National ...

6 days ago · The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a "temporary pause" on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.. Why it matters: It's an astonishing reversal by the Trump administration, a day after top officials defended the funding freeze — which a judge temporarily halted on Tuesday — as necessary to ensure all ...

6 days ago · Rounds indicated that White House officials reviewed the funding freeze after getting pressed by GOP lawmakers, who had many questions about how it would affect their constituents.

6 days ago · The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash. In the memo ...

6 days ago · President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded a memo freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country