White House revokes spending freeze in face of legal challenges
White House revokes spending freeze in face of legal challenges
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Move come after federal judge blocked freeze that disrupted payments to medical and childcare providers. Donald Trump’s administration pulled back a proposed spending freeze that threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to US programs, a White House official said on Wednesday.
The first major domestic policy reversal of the Republican president’s new term came after one federal judge had temporarily blocked the freeze and before another judge was due to hear a separate legal challenge. The proposal had thrown the federal government into chaos and disrupted payments to medical and childcare providers.
