The White House remains committed to freezing federal grants and loans aimed at “woke” programs, Fox News has learned, despite the administration’s move to rescind the original Office of Management and Budget memo — effectively ending the legal battle and any “confusion” for recipients.  A federal judge on Tuesday paused the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo, which aimed to freeze funding to various federal programs. ‘ANSWERED...

The Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to confirm former Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the government’s leading agency on environmental rules and regulations. President Donald Trump tapped Zeldin, who previously served as a congressman from New York’s 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under his administration. During his tenure in Congress, Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, launched a...

President Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the Commerce Department, Howard Lutnick, told senators the argument that tariffs cause inflation is “nonsense” during a confirmation hearing. “The two top countries with tariffs, India and China, do have the most tariffs and no inflation,” Lutnick noted.  “A particular product’s price may go up,” he conceded, while arguing that levies would not cause broad inflation. “It is just nonsense to say...