The funding freeze "violates the separation of powers," Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said, as a colleague from California called it "arbitrary and capricious."

Massachusetts is joining in legal action as President Trump's administration begins a review of spending that could freeze trillions of government dollars.

The White House is claiming victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC News chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce Tuesday that every single illegal

Trump's raft of executive orders drew swift condemnation and vows to fight from Massachusetts environmental and civil-liberties advocates.

By Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge had put the order on a brief stay while challenges to the administration work their way through the courts. But the controversy was far from over.

A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law.

Worcester's immigrants are anxious amid reports of President Trump’s administration authorizing raids of undocumented immigrants in several cities.

Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll hosted the group's first full meeting at the State House in several years.

The action may spark organizations to reach out to individual donors in order to lessen their reliance on government monies.

NewsNation political and economic contributor Mick Mulvaney, who served as the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” the administration’s blocked attempt to freeze federal funding for grants, loans and other financial assistance is about impoundment.