(That act passed in response to President Richard Nixon's attempts to impound previously appropriated funds aimed at programs he didn't like. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court in Train v. City of New York a year later, an opinion that still obtains, regardless of what the new-old president thinks.)

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering all federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized,

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars