The Trump administration abandoned its proposed aid freeze after legal setbacks but vowed to cut funds for programs opposed by Trump, sparking widespread criticism and confusion.

President Donald Trump's administration pulled back a proposed spending freeze that threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to U.S. programs, a White House official said on Wednesday. The first major domestic policy reversal of the Republican president's new term came after one federal judge had temporarily…

President Donald Trump's administration appeared to abandon its proposed freeze on hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic aid on Wednesday in the face of legal setbacks and widespread opposition, though officials said they still planned to block funding for activities opposed by Trump.

A federal judge temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives. FRANCE 24's international affairs editor Kethevane Gorjestani has more about the global impact of this aid freeze.

A federal judge blocked the funding freeze from going into effect, after a day in which Trump's White House scrambled to contain confusion.