Two national associations have obtained an immediate temporary restraint order from a Federal District Court of a plan announced by the exchange chief of the Federal Management and Budget Office for a “Temporary Pause” of all Federal Funds A From 5 pm on January 28. They are related to the executive orders of the Trump administration announced after the inauguration of January 8.
U.S. District Court Judge Loren L. Alikhan, temporarily blocked the freezing funding described in a note from the agency published on January 27 by Shadow acting director Mathew Vaeth to stop the actions that actions Federal support programs, including small business loans and local and local government grants and loans, as well as help to help non -profit institutions and institutions can affect.
Some Democratic State General Lawyers also plan a lawsuit against the Freeze and Trump administration of the Shadow, including New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the Columbia district.
New York Attorney General, Letitia James, said that the financing pause was unconstitutional. Other state lawyers said that the Congress authority is diminished.
Trump “does not wake up in the morning or after a nap in the afternoon and to direct its entire government to stop financing the critical services that Congress has been properly authorized and appropriate,” said the Attorney General of New Jersey, Matt Platkin, other groups that represent those affected by the seconds, financing freezing could also have a legal position.
The United States Department of Defense said that its contractual awards would continue in a statement published at the end of January 28. “The department continues to award new contracts to meet the validated mission needs,” he said. “Although we do not know any specific contracts or other affected activities, the activities may be paused if they are determined that they are within the limits of orientation. DOD said that it would provide more details” as they develop and were available. “
Democratic leaders also requested their nomination from Russell Vought, an architect of the Ultra-Conservative 2025 policy agenda to run the Shadow until the Trump administration releases freezing on the already appropriate federal funding.
Vaeth had described the withholding as a necessary to provide the new administration for enough time to “review the agency programs and determine the best use of funding for those programs consistent with the law and the president’s priorities.”
In an informative session of January 28, the Democratic Senate leader, Chuck Schumer (NY), described the action as a “dagger in the heart of the north -American average -American family, the blue states, a The cities, in the suburbs. ”
Impact on construction
The impact on the construction projects already underway or contracted is not yet understood, and the construction groups on January 28 were not sure of the breadth of the effects.
“We are directing all our contacts within various agencies to understand what the note means,” said Brian Turmail, vice -president of public affairs and strength of the general associated general contractors. “The short answer is that we are working to clarify its possible impacts. At the same time, we communicate with the administration that any significant delay in funding will adversely affect construction projects.”
Zack Permonti, Vice President of Government Affairs of the National Association of Utility Contractors, added: “A specific direction absent, this note is so wide that everything we are working on is potentially stopped until it is clarified. Climate resilience projects probably stop both in the order of the executive order of North -American Energy and in the note of the Shadow, but other projects such as water, broadband and general transportation. Surface can end up being exempt. ”
Sean McGARVEY, President of the North America’s unions, said he hopes “quite massive layoffs of construction workers across the country based on the actions of the administration so far.” He said that the State Transportation Department officials and others said they will “close funding, which means that contractors will leave these projects and leave our employees.” Described the offshore wind industry as “dead”.
The White House Secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said on January 28 that federal assistance to people, including Social Security, food stamps, Medicare and care stamps, is not would be affected. “However, it is the responsibility of this President and this administration to be good administrators of the taxpayer’s dollars,” he said.
Leavitt said that Shado would review programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and therefore to review the agency’s requests to continue supporting “necessary programs and in line with the President’s priorities”.
But the Vice President of the Law Committee (D-Wash), said that it does not correspond to the President or the Shadow annulled the Congress Law, including the invoices of appropriations, which are usually passed through an extensive bipartisan negotiation. . “Republicans should not move forward [Vought’s] The candidacy outside the committee until the Trump administration follows the law … and it is assured that the country’s expenses laws are implemented as Congress intended, “he said.
Some Republicans have said that they support the financing break, with the President of the Budget Committee, Lindsey Graham (Rs.C.), published a statement that would advance with the vote of the Committee on the Vouught candidacy on January 30. .
