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,

A judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal loans and grants until Monday, but the sense of confusion hit hard in this government-dependent region.