Trump spending freeze halts some national-lab projects

President Trump's spending freeze has halted various projects at national laboratories, including one focused on threats to the U.S. electrical grid, directors of four of the labs told lawmakers on Wednesday.“We had one project funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act supporting grid-resiliency activities. So this is a $7 million project where the funds were unallocated on Jan. 28,” Kimberly Budil, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said