A federal judge temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s pause on federal grants and loans Tuesday, just hours before it was set to take effect, as a slew of advocacy groups, charities,

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 executive power.

To put the point as directly possible, the Supreme Court’s budget depends upon a functioning appropriations power.

President Donald Trump's effort to freeze federal aid spending has sparked a constitutional battle that could end up before the Supreme Court.

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.

A second federal judge has ordered a temporary pause in Trump administration efforts to freeze federal funding in the latest twist over the spending of trillions of dollars in grants and loans.

Trump plans to link transportation funding to policies on masks, vaccines and immigration enforcement, as well as marriage and birth rates.

Attorney General Raúl Labrador, who was successfully sued for the same issue on a different initiative in 2023, is one of the defendants.

The group organizing a 2026 ballot initiative to restore abortion rights in Idaho is asking the state supreme court to order the attorney general and other state agencies to fix language it says is biased and misleading about what the initiative will do and how much it will cost taxpayers.

Since taking office just two weeks ago, the Trump administration has become the target of multiple lawsuits over the President’s executive orders and agenda, including his immigration policy, federal aid freeze and DEI shutdowns.

The memo said the Trump administration would “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”