Democrats, Donald Trump and Senate Budget Committee
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget sent this document to government agencies listing about 2,600 programs that were under review.
The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.
President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources departent.
The White House memo issued late Monday led to chaos and confusion as to what programs would be impacted by the freeze.
The Beltway swamp hates it, but the president is bound and determined to shrink the federal budget and its huge deficit.
A memo that paused federal grants and loans briefly put tens of millions of dollars in local funding for housing, public works and more in jeopardy.
Learn more about the exemptions for certain government employees that do not have to follow the return-to-office mandate from Trump.
One of the most visible signs of how President Donald Trump is trying to reshape the federal government is his call for federal employees to return to the office full-time. On his first day, Trump signed an executive order that called for an end to remote work and later that week, agencies were instructed to end their telework policies.
The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.
The Trump’s administration’s Office of Management and Budget released a new memo Wednesday rescinding a controversial memo issued late Monday that froze a wide swath of federal financial assistance, which had paralyzed many federal programs and caused a huge uproar on Capitol Hill.
The Trump administration is poised to oust Biden-era appointee Rohit Chopra as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and is considering either the Treasury Department or the White House Office of Management and Budget to oversee the agency,