At least the judges are pushing back even if Democrats are silent…
Congress APPROVEs money to the states…..
Not the executive branch….
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep taxpayer dollars flowing to 22 Democratic-leaning states for all congressionally approved government programs, including those that could run afoul of President Trump’s ideological tests.
The decision, signed by Judge John J. McConnell Jr., is a temporary but significant victory for the Democratic attorneys general from those states and the District of Columbia, who sued the administration in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The order applies only to the states that filed the lawsuit.
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A federal judge in Rhode Island has issued a temporary restraining order mandating that Trump administration officials not “pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel or terminate” taxpayer money flowing to the 22 states that sued. The ruling comes after the Trump administration rescinded a memo from its Office of Management and Budget that called for freezing as much as $3 trillion, including funding for essential services….
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Friday’s court order, signed by Judge John J. McConnell Jr., overrides a claim made by the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who said that despite the rescinding of the memo, some funds could still be frozen.
Update…
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to comply with his order to unfreeze federal grants, after attorneys general for several Democratic states claimed the directive was not being fulfilled.
In a short order Monday, U.S. District Judge John McConnell directed the Trump administration to “immediately” end any federal funding pause until he decides whether to indefinitely block the freeze while litigation is ongoing.
The judge said specifically that the withheld funds that must be restored include those appropriated under two laws championed by former President Biden — the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — and those intended for institutes and other agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH)….
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