Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee boycotted a meeting Thursday to advance Russell Vought’s nomination to chair the Office of Budget and Management—but of course, Republicans still forged ahead to put his candidacy to a vote.

Schumer said said he received nonstop calls with concerns that this could shut down critical operations and cancel construction projects.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily halted President Trump’s attempt to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, including university and nonprofit funding, food assistance,

CNN's Bakari Sellers laid into Democratic leadership over what he said was its feckless response to the first week of President Donald Trump's second term. The post ‘Democrats Suck at This So Bad’: Bakari Sellers Blasts Chuck Schumer and Democratic Leadership first appeared on Mediaite.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sharply attacked President Trump over the federal funding freeze memo and credited the American people with precipitating its reversal. “Today, we saw

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily halted President Trump’s radical plan to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress.

President Trump’s memo on the freeze specifically mentions funding related to foreign aid, what he calls “Woke Gender Ideology,” and the Green New Deal. The administration said the freeze will not impact assistance such as Social Security, food stamps, and welfare benefits.

Several executive orders Trump signed last week pause or end some federal funding. Those executive orders, which remain in place, include the freezing of foreign aid, all funds to federal grantees who received money for DEI-related purposes and all funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act.

President Donald Trump's order to pause all federal grants and loans sowed widespread confusion on Tuesday over its impact on far-reaching programs such as Medicaid, sending nonprofits and government agencies scrambling to understand its scope and prompting immediate legal challenges.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the medical aid website would be back online "shortly", after a sweeping memo ordered federal agencies to freeze funding.

including efforts to reduce prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. “And within two days, in one of the first executive orders, they pull the rug out from under what we did,” Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.