President Trump continued his crusade to thin out the federal bureaucracy by offering all 2 million federal workers eight months' salary in exchange for resigning from their position.

Congressional Democrats have promised to hold Republicans accountable for President Trump pardoning more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants on the day he was sworn into office.

A White House directive to pause federal grants and loans raised uncertainty and fears among many who depend on federal aid before a judge intervened Tuesday to temporarily block it from taking effect.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants that set off a firestorm of alarm and confusion around Washington as lawmakers and aid organizations demanded more time to figure out what is affected by the White House's order.

President Trump's decision to hit pause on billions of dollars in federal spending spawned an avalanche of complaints from his opponents on Tuesday.

Karoline Leavitt made history Tuesday as the youngest White House press secretary with her first briefing, calling on the media to be truthful in their reporting and giving a sneak peek into how the Trump administration is redefining transparency.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday largely defended President Trump's authority to temporarily freeze disbursements of federal funding for a variety of grants and other assistance programs, but said they still had some questions.

The Trump administration's order freezing certain federal grants follows President Biden's massive expansion of spending at home and abroad to implement "woke" ideology and far-left "Green New Deal," policies, according to budget analysts.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York called an emergency meeting among House Democrats to iron out a strategy to fight back against President Trump's temporary freeze of federal grants and assistance.