Maryland leaders on Wednesday found little comfort in President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind an order to freeze all kinds of federal grants — a move that sparked panic in the state and across the country on Tuesday before a federal judge suspended it.

Maryland Democrats at the state and federal levels huddled Wednesday to figure out a response to a Trump administration proposal that threatened billions in federal aid to the state before apparently being reversed,

President Trump’s announcement of a freeze on federal loans and grants has left officials through Maryland, Virginia and the District scrambling to understand the impact.

Maryland leaders joined a nationwide scramble on Tuesday to make sense of a broad order from President Donald Trump’s budget office to pause all federal grants.

President Donald Trump's executive order pausing federal funding to various grant and loan programs has Maryland Democrats seeking legal action and speaking out against the president

House Democrats are requesting that the Trump administration immediately clarify an executive order pausing funding under former President Joe Biden’s initiative to build new roads, fix bridges and launch other infrastructure projects.

Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are concerned about recent actions of the Trump administration that they say are sowing fear and confusion. Chaos. Chaos. Chaos. That’s how some Maryland delegates describe the last 48 hours.

The attorneys general in Maryland and Washington, D.C. were among those who filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration to stop the implementation of a policy that would withhold essential federal funding.