Among those pardoned by Trump were 169 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers, according to Sen. Patty Murray's office.
Trump’s budget office has rescinded his proposed freeze on large swathes of federal aid, capping off a whirlwind 48 hours in which the president’s push to rein in spending sowed chaos across levels of government that administration officials were left scrambling to contain.
During the Senate Democrats press briefing from Washington D.C. today, Senator Patty Murray lost it on President Trump over his federal funding freeze, which was announced last night.
Patty Murray Highlights Danger Of Trump Freezing Federal Assistance Funding During Wednesday's Senate Democrats' press briefing, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) discussed President Donald Trump's decision to freeze federal funds.
The symbolic resolution would only have condemned pardons for the most violent rioters, but Republicans have mostly moved on from criticizing the Capitol riot.
Democrats are struggling to respond to the sheer volume of executive orders, personnel changes, and policy shifts taking place in the little more than a week since Trump’s inauguration.
The Trump administration reversed its policy to freeze grants and loans while officials evaluated whether spending met the president's priorities.
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is speaking out after Republicans blocked a resolution on Tuesday that would have condemned President Trump’s pardons for people convicted of assaulting
Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn ... D.C., Metropolitan Police officers were assaulted during the attack. “Donald Trump’s pardons are a wholesale endorsement of political violence ...
Washington is scrambling to interpret a new Trump administration memo that appears to halt funding for many programs. The impact of the short memo, released Monday, is causing widespread confusion.
The order sparked quick pushback from Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who said Trump was trampling on the power of the purse given to Congress.
At her first briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that this pause will not impact individual assistance, including Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, and welfare benefits. A new statement said the pause is limited to programs and projects implicated under Trump’s flurry of executive orders.