Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an emailed statement that the Trump administration was already “illegally impounding additional funds,” as withholding money has “always been illegal without explicit Congressional approval.”

President Donald Trump is asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion of federal funding to reflect a portion of the cuts made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. The long-awaited request sent to Congress on June 3 would strip funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,

The request includes blocking funding to combat HIV/AIDS and for contributing to the World Health Organization and providing media services to U.S. consumers.

US states and small businesses that won a ruling that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal want them blocked during the administration’s appeal, saying they’re suffering immediate harm from economic uncertainty around the levies.