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One more choose blocks Trump’s ‘utterly destructive’ funding freeze

Editorial Board Published March 7, 2025
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President Donald Trump is having one other horrible week in court docket. 

Federal choose John McConnell of Rhode Island issued a ruling on Thursday extending a block of Trump’s federal funding freeze from his first days in workplace.

McConnell issued a preliminary injunction after he granted a brief restraining order in January in opposition to the Workplace of Administration and Finances, which despatched a memo directing federal companies to withhold congressionally appointed grants, loans, and monetary help to states. 

The preliminary injunction, which maintains the established order till the court docket makes a closing choice, is meant to guard states from the speedy hardship of shedding federal funding.

McConnell’s ruling blocks Trump’s federal funding freeze for now and declares that the states—which claimed to nonetheless be ready for some funding—have confirmed that “concrete and imminent harm” was achieved by the short-lived memo.

“The States have introduced dozens of uncontested declarations illustrating the effects of the indiscriminate and unpredictable freezing of federal funds, which implicate nearly all aspects of the States’ governmental operations and inhibit their ability to administer vital services to their residents.These declarations reflect at least one particularized, concrete, and imminent harm that flows from the federal funding pause—a significant, indefinite loss of obligated federal funding,” McConnell wrote within the ruling. 

This follows U.S. District Court docket Decide Loren L. AliKhan’s barring of Trump’s pause on federal support, granting a win to nonprofits and small companies. 


New York Legal professional Common Letitia James

In January, a bunch of 23 Democratic attorneys basic challenged Trump’s actions stating that they impacted People’ important packages, hindered accessibility to well being care portals, and wreaked havoc on the federal government. The lawsuit was led by New York Legal professional Common Letitia James, who’s now praising McConnell for ruling in opposition to Trump’s government overreach. 

“The Trump administration’s illegal funding freeze jeopardized law enforcement funding, essential health care and childcare services, and other critical programs that millions of Americans rely on. Today we secured another court order to block the administration’s funding freeze while our lawsuit progresses. The power of the purse belongs to Congress – not the President,” James mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.

Rhode Island Legal professional Common Peter Neronha additionally praised McConnell’s choice. 

“Americans pay taxes to the federal government knowing that the Congress will allocate their dollars towards agencies and programs that will support them in their daily lives. The President’s federal funding freeze would be laughable if it wasn’t so utterly destructive. It flies in the face of everything we know to be true about our government, namely our separation of powers, by attempting to render the Congress as irrelevant,” he mentioned in a press launch on Thursday.

Trump confronted one other loss on Wednesday, when the Supreme Court docket shut down his request to withhold $2 billion in overseas support in an try to shirk USAID funds to federal contractors. 

With two federal judges now extending the block on his funding freeze and the Supreme Court docket rejecting his bid to withhold overseas support, Trump’s mounting authorized obstacles are simply starting. 

And Democratic pushback is lastly seeing some wins. 

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