President Donald Trump’s pause on federal grants and loans has agencies and individuals scrambling as the fallout continues.

Unclear if sweeping executive order will affect Medicaid and other federal assistance programs for older Americans.

Programs Americans rely on, like Social Security and Medicare, lean on tax revenue from both documented and undocumented workers, even though people living in the US illegally are ineligible to receive these benefits.

The move by DOGE, a Trump administration task force assigned to find ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations, means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data,

Led by Musk and a group of young engineers, DOGE is migrating around the government in search of cuts with an intensity that has demoralized federal workers and become a defining early mark of Donald Trump’s second term. Democrats are citing DOGE as they shift from early divisions over how to handle Trump to more full-throated resistance.

The billionaire and his DOGE agents were granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

Tesla founder Elon Musk was named head of the Department of Government Efficiency - a special commission tasked with slashing federal spending by Donald Trump