The freeze threatened to hold up trillions of dollars in funding for basic government functions like health care, infrastructure and support for children and veterans.

Illinois lawmakers are happy a federal judge halted President Trump's federal funding freeze Tuesday, but they aren't relying ...

A federal funding freeze announced by President Donald Trump ’s administration this week sparked concern in the public health ...

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...

Trump's move to pause federal grants and loans sparks Democratic resistance and raises questions on the impact on public benefit programs.

The President of the University of Illinois system sent out a Massmail addressing the University's monitoring of federal ...

Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to freeze funding for Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and other vital programs. • The Trump administration issued an OMB memo freezing federal grants and funding, ...

The immediate threat by the Trump administration of cutting off federal funding seems to have passed, but the incident is affecting Gov. JB Pritzker's thinking on what promises to be a tight state ...

Medicaid and Medicare are exempt from the spending freeze, but those stipulations were questioned. Leavitt reportedly ...

But Illinois has a “trigger” law that would automatically end Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions in the state if federal funding is cut — which means 931,169 Illinoisans would lose their health ...

Good afternoon, Chicago ✶ Earlier today, the Trump administration announced a “temporary” freeze on federal funding to state and local governments. It’s a decision that’ ...

Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence had a particularly controversial trip to the Middle East that members of ...