White House says Trump funding freeze remains in effect despite rescinding OMB memo

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In wild week of Trump budget freezes, IndyGo Blue Line plows forward

IndyGo plans to move ahead with work on the Blue Line despite President Trump’s executive order to freeze transportation funds.

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U.S. Rep Jim Clyburn addresses rescinded Trump funding freeze at Lowcountry YMCA groundbreaking

Despite an array of uncertainty and rapid changes at the federal level, the groundbreaking of a federally funded YMCA project in Jasper County continued as planned Jan. 30.

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Trump still wants a spending fight with Congress, even after memo debacle

Politico.com – For more and to sign up click here The Trump administration has been spoiling for a legal fight over its power to ignore Congress’s spending laws since the president was last in office. But sending Washington into a tailspin over a poorly written memo was not part of the plan. While the Trump administration intends to ax funding for initiatives it views as out of step with its… Source

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Trump has withdrawn the freeze on f¨derale grants. But the chaotic situation is ushering in a battle for the president's powers, writes Jacob Fuglsang in this news analysis.

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Trump's Medicaid freeze, Ozempic for kidney disease, and 23andMe for sale: Pharma news roundup

President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal funding for a massive number of government programs impacted Medicaid payment systems across the country, briefly locking 72 million Americans out of their health insurance Tuesday. Novo Nordisk said this week that its diabetes drug Ozempic was approved by the Food and…Read more...

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White House Rescinds Memo Freezing Trillions of Dollars of Federal Grants and Loans

The White House on Wednesday rescinded a memo from the Office of Management and Budget that briefly froze trillions of dollars of federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress. The order set off panic and mass confusion across the federal bureaucracy, briefly disrupting funding for Medicaid, housing and other public services Tuesday before a federal judge put a temporary hold on the plan. On Wednesday,…