After this story was published, the White House rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week. Read our developing coverage here. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s pause on federal grants and loans,
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President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget faced a tough grilling from Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday.
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A wide-ranging pause on agency funds and grants remains on ice — even after the White House rescinded a contested OMB memo announcing the suspension.
That fight could become a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power before the Supreme Court.
President Trump signed an executive order calling for a federal "funding freeze," and Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently issued
Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of the purse.
In order for the United States to remain “a government of laws, not of men,” all officials entrusted with elected authority must recognize the necessity and justice of constraints on their own power.
A federal judge this week issued a stay that freezes a freeze that the Trump administration had earlier tried to impose upon federal grants and loans, forcing an embarrassing about-face from Trump’s new regime.