The White House says more guidance is coming on Trump's potentially illegal order to pause federal funding for ideological review.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's access to federal payment systems for Medicaid and Head Start were restored late Tuesday, hours after they were shut off following the White House said it had put a freeze on funding of a wide range of government programs.

The Office of Management and Budget requested agencies temporarily pause grant, loan, or federal assistance programs implicated by President Trump’s executive o

The freeze is already impacting some services. The governor says portals for Medicaid, CareerLink and Head Start are down in Pennsylvania and other states.

Pennsylvania state and local officials are scrambling after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered a temporary pause on federal financial assistance, a halt that could disrupt trillions of dollars nationally.

Pennsylvania’s Medicaid funding portal is currently unavailable following President Trump’s order that federal financial assistance be frozen. Governor Josh Shapiro

Shapiro’s term so far has come with challenges, as one of few governors in the country with a GOP-controlled Senate and a narrow Democratic majority in the state House.

PJM Interconnection, which controls the flow of electricity to a dozen states, planned to hike rates for consumers through 2028. Shapiro joined the governors of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey to file a federal complaint Dec.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro criticized President Donald Trump for his pardons of about 1,500 people convicted for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including for violent offenses against Capitol police officers.

Gov. Josh Shapiro interacts Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, with the Dieruff High School Band as he and local leaders visit Harrison-Morton Middle School in Allentown to highlight the more than $2 billion ...