The Trump administration’s expansive freeze on federal grants and other executive spending roiled Washington on Tuesday, drawing howls from Democrats — and a few well-placed Republicans — who say the president is abusing his powers at the expense of public services.

As director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought plans to implement the most critical parts of the new Trump agenda.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, says the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. is “sending the wrong signal.”

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.

The start of President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by a flurry of executive orders and challenges to his policies in courts. A federal judge ordered a temporary halt on a White House plan to pause funding for all federal grants and loans.

The White House is taking drastic measures to control trillions of federal dollars by ordering a freeze on all federal grants and loans so the Trump administration can review government spending.

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.

The Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday morning sent out instructions to agencies for complying with a massive federal funding freeze.

"The Senate must not be business as usual," warned Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as nearly two dozen Democrats cast a protest vote on a Trump nominee.

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, despite the panel’s 10 Democrats skipping the vote in protest.

Donald Trump’s FBI director pick Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard and Ambassador to the United Nations hopeful Elise Stefanik are among a string of confirmation hearings happening in the Senate today.