California will help lead a coalition of states in suing to block a White House budget office order halting "all federal financial assistance."

WASHINGTON - The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded a Trump administration directive pausing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, a White House official said on Wednesday.

With thousands of migrants having been deported and a freeze on federal grant funding recently announced, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded dozens of questions

But the legal battle over the plan that set off panic and confusion across the country is just beginning, and it could become a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power before the Supreme Court.