The White House has made it clear that Social Security and Medicare won't be affected by a proposed federal funding freeze. This freeze appeared to be off the table, after the initial OMB memo calling ...

The freeze threatened to hold up trillions of dollars in funding for basic government functions like health care, infrastructure and support for children and veterans.

The news of a possible federal funding freeze from Monday night was a clear code red for the Illinois Coalition Against ...

Illinois lawmakers are happy a federal judge halted President Trump's federal funding freeze Tuesday, but they aren't relying ...

A federal funding freeze announced by President Donald Trump ’s administration this week sparked concern in the public health ...

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...

Trump's move to pause federal grants and loans sparks Democratic resistance and raises questions on the impact on public benefit programs.

The President of the University of Illinois system sent out a Massmail addressing the University's monitoring of federal ...

Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to freeze funding for Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and other vital programs. • The Trump administration issued an OMB memo freezing federal grants and funding, ...

The immediate threat by the Trump administration of cutting off federal funding seems to have passed, but the incident is affecting Gov. JB Pritzker's thinking on what promises to be a tight state ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) sought to keep expectations in check during an afternoon news ...

Medicaid and Medicare are exempt from the spending freeze, but those stipulations were questioned. Leavitt reportedly ...