Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.

The Trump administration is calling on states to request waivers that would bar food stamp recipients from buying soda and ...

The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in ...

Congress may soon consider whether to cut spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the main way the ...

Kennedy Jr. announced on Friday that the Trump administration would begin allowing states to bar recipients of federal food assistance ... would be to expand SNAP funding so that Americans in ...

Who is Judge McConnell? Meet with RI judge at the center of Trump's spending freeze. Trump's federal funding freeze fight is back in RI court on Friday. Here's what to expect. Experts weigh in ...

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration‘s efforts to pause federal aid through an Office of Management and Budget memorandum Wednesday, upholding a lower court’s ruling.

Update: On Wednesday, Jan. 29, President Donald Trump ... of the freeze, as well as opposition to the halt on federal funding. The memo exempts Medicare and Social Security benefits, as well ...

The decision denied a request from the Trump administration ... to halt the freeze. They argued that the funding, including critical disaster relief disbursed by the Federal Emergency Management ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s ruling Wednesday, keeping a block on the Trump administration’s plans to freeze federal loans ...

One week after Trump took office, he issued a memo ordering all federal ... benefits be unaffected by the freeze. But the White House later had to clarify that other programs such as Medicaid and the ...