President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources departent.

Trump's deadlines for tariffs, federal worker buyouts and RTO, federal funding freeze, TikTok, and more are coming up. Here's a timeline of key dates.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from freezing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance to 22 states, barring the Republican for now from implementing a policy that had stoked confusion and fears about critical government-funded services being disrupted.

President Trump's top budget office has directed agencies to pause federal loans and grants so the administration can review them.

A federal judge signaled he will issue a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from freezing federal loans and grants.

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

The Trump administration OPM and OMB offices went on a memo blitz on Monday, including directing agency leaders to pause federal grants and to deliver return to office plans.

Recent reports have shed light on a development that the Democrats has now got an opportunity due to US President Donald Trump, to pounce on the new administration alongside it is being also known that the White House is hastily yanking several memos.

See agency by agency, the more than one million federal workers who could be affected.

Two-sentence memo ends days-long threats that sent officials, agencies and nonprofits into tailspin over ‘unconstitutional’ threats

A White House order to freeze federal grants reflects a theory of presidential power that Donald Trump clearly endorsed during his 2024 campaign. The approach was further outlined in the Project 2025 governing treatise that candidate Trump furiously denied was a blueprint for his second administration.