Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, called the alleged aid “a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”

Karoline Leavitt’s debut White House press briefing comments about condoms and the truth also drew intense scrutiny.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded the federal aid freeze, according to a memo obtained by CNN from a Trump administration official

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reports on President Donald Trump signing the Laken Riley Act into law and the White House rescinding a memo freezing federal funds on 'Special Report.

The White House rescinded an order today that froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans in an effort to purge the government of what President Trump has called a “woke” ideology. The directive had been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is on hold for now, on the order of a federal judge.

President Donald Trump’s budget office rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The White House is rescinding a controversial decision that could have halted billions of dollars in federal funding, following a judge's intervention and widespread confusion over the policy's scope.

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

That fight could become a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power before the Supreme Court.