The freeze does not apply to military personnel or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security and public safety. The White House is also exempted from the hiring pause.

"This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. She blamed "dishonest media coverage" for the widespread confusion and ...

The White House abruptly rescinded its federal funding freeze Wednesday after most Republicans spent days defending it. In a short memo to the heads of executive departments or agencies ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ... alarm about programs like Medicaid going dark. The big picture: The freeze, ...

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, insisted this afternoon that “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze.” She appeared to be referring to the fact that the ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing on Tuesday, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal financial assistance programs that ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially would not say whether Medicaid was exempted from the freeze, but the administration later clarified that it was. Although Trump had promised ...

A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law. By Mattathias Schwartz and ...

The freeze, which could affect billions of dollars ... to individuals," according to the memo. The pause gives the White House time to review government funding for causes that don't fit with ...

BOSTON — Harvard University announced Monday that it was suing the Trump administration to halt a freeze on more than ... letter to Harvard this month, the White House had called for broad ...