The memo exempts Medicare and Social Security benefits ... afternoon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. temporarily suspended the implementation of the spending freeze until Feb. 3.

As part of the Trump administration's efforts to cut federal spending, Social Security is enduring job cuts, office closings, a revamped customer service strategy and scrutiny for fraud.

President Trump continues to claim his administration won’t touch Social Security. But as Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency look to slash federal jobs and spending ...

As Northwestern faculty grapple with the implications of a federal funding freeze, they are already living with the effects of a 10% non-personnel spending reduction enacted by the University in ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA ... part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts to federal spending. The SSA later said it was not permanently closing offices, but ...

The agency already doesn't have enough employees, she said, and more staff hours will be wasted if current employees have to start spending ... treating Social Security and all the federal ...

Lawler, 38, did not directly mention social security, medicare or medicaid ... Because we’re blocking off roughly 87, 90 percent of federal spending and saying, we can’t touch that.

Jewish social services agencies throughout ... of Health and Human Services come as a spending freeze at another federal agency puts security grants for synagogues and Jewish nonprofits in limbo.