White House defends spending freeze as Democrats spotlight pain points

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 28 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty…

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Trump critic Jim Acosta reveals his next move after leaving CNN

Hours after signing off from CNN for the final time following his rejection of the network’s proposal to take his news program to the “graveyard” midnight shift, Jim Acosta revealed…

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Live updates: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s federal funding freeze

Senate Democrats are pushing a resolution that condemns President Donald Trump for pardoning Jan. 6 rioters who were found guilty of assaulting police officers at the Capitol, but their effort…

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D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending

WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Tuesday granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid, pausing the plan for a week…

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Jim Acosta Heads to Substack After CNN Exit

Jim Acosta, just hours after announcing his exit from CNN, said he was joining Substack on Tuesday afternoon. Acosta joins a growing list of high-profile media figures to join the…

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How will the federal funding pause affect Staunton, Augusta and Waynesboro?

(This story will be updated as more information becomes available.) President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders in his first week in office, including a “pause” on federal grants…

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State Medicaid payments inaccessible amid broader federal funding freeze

Medicaid funding to states is frozen due to a nationwide outage in government payment processing systems, causing mass confusion across the country. Congressional Democrats said Trump’s executive orders pausing federal…

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Nonprofits in New York Are Told Their Contracts ‘Have Been Paused’

As New York leaders sought to make sense of the Trump administration’s recent directive freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, a trickle of real-life implications started to…

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Trump’s federal funding freeze prompts mass confusion across North Carolina

Data: National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios The Trump Administration’s halting of federal grants and financial assistance programs has institutions, cities, nonprofits and politicians across…

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Wednesday Briefing: Trump’s Funding Freeze

Image Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, defended the order to pause spending yesterday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times Several states were planning yesterday to file suit to block President…

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