Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought arrives to testify during a hearing of the House Budget Committee about President Trump's budget for Fiscal Year 2021, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a section titled “Terminating the Green New Deal.” As presidential directives go, this one initially seemed like a joke. The Green New Deal exists mostly in the dreams of climate activists; it has never been fully enacted into law.

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional challenge.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Office of Management and Budget Director nominee Russell Vought discuss potential reforms to Medicaid, examining the program's current structure and questioning its effectiveness in serving its originally intended populations at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee.

But a judge put a temporary halt to the freeze until constitutional questions about its legality can be resolved.

As promised, our newly elected president is moving quickly to get his most controversial plans in action while still in the approving afterglow of his inauguration. The firehose of orders,

President Donald Trump's dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the Constitution that will test the court's recently muscular commitment to curb

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized, despite a federal law forbidding it.

ATLANTA (AP) — A White House order to freeze federal grants reflects a theory of presidential power that Donald Trump clearly endorsed during his 2024 campaign. The approach was further outlined in the Project 2025 governing treatise that candidate Trump furiously denied was a blueprint for his second administration.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Monday issued a sweeping directive to federal agencies to temporarily pause billions of dollars of spending on health care, housing assistance and disaster relief.

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