Former U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr is joining the legal battles over President Donald Trump’s broad crackdown on spending, accusing the administration in a lawsuit of withholding funds from a nonprofit focused on boosting democratic institutions.

The Trump administration must now release all of the USAID contract funds frozen by the State Department in order to comply with the original temporary restraining order issued by

Despite the Trump administration's threats to withhold funding, four Democratic mayors defended their cities' sanctuary policies before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson,

Four mayors defended the sanctuary policies of their cities at a House hearing Wednesday, as Republicans sought to take them to task for failing to cooperate with federal authorities to enforce immigration law.

Denver made a choice as a city — not to hate each other, but to help each other,” Johnston said of the response to a large migrant influx.