After this story was published, the White House rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.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,

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

Joyce Vance warned that Trump's move could ignite a "constitutional confrontation" between government branches.

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A wide-ranging pause on agency funds and grants remains on ice — even after the White House rescinded a contested OMB memo announcing the suspension.

Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of the purse.

Sen. Joan Huffman has filed a bill that proposes to raise the state's base salary for judges from $140,000 to $161,000 — a raise of $21,000 or 15%.

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, despite the panel’s 10 Democrats skipping the vote in protest.

US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan’s stay temporarily blocked part of Trump’s plans, preventing the administration from pausing payments for open awards – those already granted by the federal government – through at least 5 p.m. ET Monday, February 3.

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is on hold for now, on the order of a federal judge.

The federal funding freeze, rescinded after a judge paused it, is the latest episode in the president’s attempts to extend his authority beyond the limits of the law