Senate Democrats are demanding Republicans postpone a vote scheduled for Thursday on Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, after the budget office on Monday issued a broadly worded memo freezing large swaths of federal assistance.

Donald Trump’s move to pause trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans awakened widespread Democratic resistance to the new president’s second term that was felt Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in governors’ offices and in the race to helm the party’s national committee.

A judge has postponed a Trump administration pause on grant, loan and other financial assistance programs at the Office of Management and Budget.

Democratic members of Colorado's congressional delegation on Tuesday sounded the alarm over the Trump administration's sweeping freeze on federal aid, branding the move "reckless" and an unconstitutional power grab.

Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire that he believes the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” Asked by Sen.