California will help lead a coalition of states in suing to block a White House budget office order halting "all federal financial assistance."

All illegal immigrants that have been arrested by immigration authorities in recent days are criminal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Trump's firings of the Senate-confirmed inspectors general included officials at Defense, State, Transportation, Labor, Health and Human Services, and EPA among others.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the medical aid website would be back online "shortly", after a sweeping memo ordered federal agencies to freeze funding.

The order is "a potential five-alarm fire" for organizations that serve communities, nonprofit group executive says.

"The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an X post. "We have confirmed no payments have been affected -- they are still being processed and sent. We expect the portal will be back online shortly," she added.

The remarks from Karoline Leavitt, the new White House press secretary, echoed earlier remarks by the Biden administration about the sightings.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said reported drone sightings that sparked panic in New Jersey last month were drones authorized to fly by the Federal Aviation Administration and “not the enemy.

White House officials struggled to clarify the scope of sweeping action by President Donald Trump to freeze federal grant funding on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.

Head Start, the nation’s signature early education program, serves some of the neediest kids, including those who are homeless, in foster care and coming from low-income households. The free program is a lifeline for low-income families who need to work but cannot afford private child care.