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President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal money after widespread confusion

President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded a memo freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from Miami to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Legal battle looms as Trump orders a funding freeze during a review of federal loans and grants

From left, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., talk to reporters about the Laken Riley Act, a bill to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was killed last year by a Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally and was allowed to stay to pursue his immigration case. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate passes immigrant detention bill that could be the first measure Trump signs into law

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress unveils funding deal with more than $100 billion in disaster aid

Senators, from left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., gather after Senate Democratic leadership elections for the next session of Congress on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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FILE - Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Vice Chair Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, right, arrives for a Senate Appropriations hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 16, 2023. The Senate will pursue a spending increase next year of about 3.4% for defense and 2.7% increase for non-defense programs under a bipartisan agreement reached by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The deal reached by Sens. Patty Murray and Susan Collins sets up a certain clash later this year with the House, which is pursuing less spending in both categories. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Key senators reach agreement on spending levels for next year, setting up clash with House

FILE--This June 29, 2012, file photo shows the Interstate 5 bridge spanning the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington states, near Vancouver, Wash. The program tasked with replacing the century-old Interstate 5 bridge that connects Portland, Oregon, with southwest Washington and serves as a vital transportation and commerce link is set to receive $600 million in federal funds, Washington congressmembers said Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file)

$600M in federal funding to go toward replacing I-5 bridge connecting Oregon and Washington

FILE - This photo shows the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River in Pasco, Wash, Oct. 24, 2006. In a move that conservationists and tribes called a potential breakthrough, President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston, File)

Biden memo directs US agencies to restore ‘healthy and abundant’ salmon runs in the Northwest

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and a group of women senators gather at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 4,2014, to advocate for a bill by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, that would allow people with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. From left are, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Feinstein, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died. She was 90. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Dianne Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember a tireless fighter and a true friend

FILE - The Capitol in Washington, is seen at sunrise, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. On one side of the U.S. Capitol, two senators have steered the debate over government funding mostly clear of partisan fights, clearing a path for bills to pass with bipartisan momentum. Steps away, on the House side of the building, things couldn’t be more different. House Republicans, trying to win support from the far-right wing of the party, have loaded up their government funding packages with funding cuts and conservative policy priorities. Democrats have responded with ire, branding their GOP counterparts as extreme and bigoted and withdrawing support for the legislation.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Senate’s bipartisan approach to government funding is putting pressure on a divided House

FILE - Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., reads her favorite children's book, "King Bidgood's in the Bathtub," to preschoolers, including Diego Bicente, 4, left, and Anh Tang, 4, at the Denise Louie Education Center in the International District neighborhood of Seattle, March 25, 2013. Democrats in Congress are pushing for a new round of money to keep the nation’s child care industry afloat, saying thousands of programs are at risk of closing when federal pandemic relief runs out this month. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

With thousands of child care programs at risk of closing, Democrats press for more money