When the reporter asked if they all have criminal records, Leavitt said: "If they broke our nation's laws, yes, they are a criminal"

Gov. JB Pritzker says the Medicaid system was down on Tuesday in Illinois and other states across the country.

Millions in local funding could be in jeopardy, and many Chicago area nonprofits were anxiously waiting late Wednesday for some clarity on the future of their federal grants.

Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent and Rep. Jason Crow, Democratic Congressman from Colorado join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the early efforts by the Trump administration to deliver on a key campaign promise of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants,

WASHINGTON - The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded a Trump administration directive pausing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, a White House official said on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has frozen federal funding. Will Medicare and Social Security or Medicaid be affected? Here's what to know.

The immigration blitz was action long promised by President Donald Trump who made mass deportation central to his campaign.

Trump is pausing federal loans and grants as his administration reviews spending, plus other latest details from the administration on Tuesday.

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.

On Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson received a letter from Washington, D.C., that states, in summary, that Chicago and other cities like it — notably Denver, New York and Boston, all of which hold sanctuary city status like Chicago — are being investigated by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

After years of warm relations with the Biden White House, a new, grim reality sets in for Illinois when Donald Trump is inaugurated Monday.

The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars after it was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.