Michigan officials were scrambling to assess the potential impact of the federal grant freeze, which the White House is defending as an effort to be ‘good stewards of taxpayer dollars.'

LANSING — Michigan's attorney general joined a group of 22 attorneys general Tuesday in a lawsuit aiming to halt a White House freeze on federal grants and loans.

The White House confirmed that OMB pulled the memo Wednesday in a two sentence notice to agencies and departments, but said that Trump’s underlying executive orders targeting federal spending in areas like diversity,

The federal funding memo's reversal comes after the original move caused chaos and confusion across the country, including in Michigan.

The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a sweeping directive to pause federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, a White House official said, just shortly before it was set to appear in court for a second straight day to defend the policy.