Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reports on President Donald Trump signing the Laken Riley Act into law and the White House rescinding a memo freezing federal funds on 'Special Report.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded the federal aid freeze, according to a memo obtained by CNN from a Trump administration official

President Donald Trump’s budget office rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The White House rescinded an order today that froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans in an effort to purge the government of what President Trump has called a “woke” ideology. The directive had been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.

The Trump administration walked back the claim on Wednesday, clarifying that the $50 million was part of a broader aid package

Karoline Leavitt’s debut White House press briefing comments about condoms and the truth also drew intense scrutiny.

The new memorandum, just two sentences long, will allow agencies to continue their normal operations after uncertainty over the impact of the initial directive caused widespread chaos across government. It followed a temporary injunction by a federal judge that prevented the original Office of Management and Budget memo from taking effect.

The freeze on hundreds of billions of dollars of federal grants had been temporarily halted by a judge on Tuesday.

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional challenge.

The White House formally rescinded a controversial memo that had ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans. The freeze, which had been set to take effect late Tuesday afternoon, was paused Tuesday by a federal judge to give her time to consider arguments challenging its legality.