A Washington federal appeals court appeared skeptical that a court order blocking the Trump administration from freezing trillions of dollars in grant funds was still needed, after a Justice Department lawyer said the government would have “no conceivable reason” to do it again.

A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration’s $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Department of Health and Human Services from halting around $10 billion in social services funding to multiple Democratic states, a move the agency argued was necessary to crack down on fraud — but the states ...

A single decision by a federal judge on Friday afternoon stopped a policy that threatened to devastate hundreds of thousands of vulnerable families across America. Just hours after five Democratic-led states filed an emergency lawsuit, U.S. District Judge ...

President Donald Trump speaks to House Republican lawmakers during their annual policy retreat, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) MANHATTAN (CN) ­— A day after attorneys general from five states sued to block President Donald ...