Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.

The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.

The website that states use to get Medicaid payments from the federal government is down, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal aid programs.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Social Security, Medicare and food stamps would not be affected by the decision to freeze federal aid. NBC News’ Sahil Kapur reports on the Trump administration’s first White House press briefing and whether Medicaid could be among the programs affected.

The grant pause is perhaps most similar to a federal government shutdown, when a congressional impasse on spending legislation delays federal payments for some state and local services.

On Monday, the White House Office of Management and Budget put out a memorandum, which is not supposed to carry the weight of an appropriation passed into law by Congress, telling federal agencies to stop for now distributing legally appropriated money for active grants and loans.

The second week of his second presidency shows how an administration moving at lightning speed deals with sudden challenges: by going on offense.

While the Trump administration intends to ax funding for initiatives it views as out of step with its priorities, it didn’t mean to blow up funding for a broader suite of programs.

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network CEO Jim Klocke said that the news was a relief for nonprofits worried about cutting employee hours and layoffs