White House orders all federal staff to return to in-office work or resign – as it happened

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Senator Patty Murray, of Washington, and Connecticut congresswoman Rosa DeLauro - top Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees - reacted to the memo ordering a pause on federal grant money with shock.

The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country," they wrote.