The Department of Veterans Affairs moved with breakneck speed Tuesday to review its programs that oversee grants, loans and financial assistance to outside organizations, declaring that 44 programs targeted by a federal funding freeze would continue.

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to invoke a federal freeze on filling vacancies and adding jobs for non-clinical positions at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A temporary freeze on federal grants, loans and other financial assistance for veterans programs announced Tuesday by the Trump administration was lifted overnight by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Everyone wanted to know the same thing: had the Trump administration actually frozen federal funds and would they be able to keep functioning? On Tuesday morning, the answer from Washington was: we’re trying to figure that out.

An internal memorandum sent on Monday by the Office of Management and Budget ordered federal agencies to pause all grants and loans.

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday he plans to veto a Republican-sponsored immigration bill that was passed by the Florida Legislature this week,

The federal funding freeze imposed by the White House Tuesday is alive and well. The only difference now is that