A federal judge of Rhode Island on January 31, on January 31 issued a temporary restraint order that prevents the Trump administration from the freezing of federal funding, after a similar action performed on January 27 by a judge De Washington, based A DC to order a temporary execution of the execution of a management and budget management office to pause the fundamental awards for the review, which the White House was canceled one day then.
The administration “does not have to pause, freeze, prevent, block, cancel or finish … fulfill the prizes and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the states,” said the judge of the district court. of the United States, John J. McConnell Answer to a lawsuit filed by General Lawyers to 22 Democratic States and Washington, DC, to stop any interruption of money obliged or approved for state and local entities, as observed in a large number of post-inauguration executive orders of Donald. Trump.
“The executive branch has a duty to align federal expenditure and action with the will of the people, as expressed through Congressional appropriations, not through” presidential priorities “, McConnell emphasized. The sentence also also. It prevents all federal agencies from being “otherwise giving effect on the contrary. Directive Shadow with any other name or title. “”
This concern was partly based on a social media post on January 28, the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, that the SMB directive canceled “is not a termination of the freezing of federal funding” . He also emphasized that executive orders calling for more review of “federal funding remain in full force and effect and will be implemented strictly.”
Potentially affected are loans for small businesses, and the subsidies and loans of the local and local government awarded under the Law on Reduction of Inflation and the Law on Investment and Infrastructure jobs that include the federal climate, l ‘Renewable energy, disaster attendance, environmental justice, fiscal credit and other programs, with possible goals even extends to the cleaning of oil and gas wells and the production and research of hydrogen from states. United increased by $ 7 billion in the financing of the Biden administration granted to seven new public-private centers.
Potential goals are noticeable in a list of Federal Programs published by Shado established for their review.
McConnell said that states have shown “in this phase that will probably suffer severe and irreparable damage” to allow freezing of funding to continue, including road impacts and other construction programs and the efforts of federal reliefs of disasters such as North Carolina, for reconstruction after the reconstruction Hurricane Helene last fall and California, for the cleaning and reconstruction of the areas of Los Angeles affected by the devastating forest fires this month.
Responding to Administration’s claims that cancel the Shado Directive made the application for the containment order not needed, McConnell said that the “alleged termination … was only on behalf and could have State emitted simply to defeat court jurisdiction. The ambiguity of the executive’s action makes it impossible to do it differently. “
The order is in effect until the judge regulates the application of the states for a preliminary order, to be presented “quickly”, said McConnell
“Today’s court’s decision reaffirms that the President cannot unilaterally remove the federal funding,” said Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts Attorney General, a law seeker. Others are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island. Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Washington, DC
In his proposal to challenge states, the United States Justice Department stated that the Rhode Island Federal Court had no jurisdiction, adding that Trump and Shado “have a simply authority to direct agencies to fully implement the Agenda of the President, in accordance with the underlying statutory authorities of each individual agency. ” Brett Shumate, Acting Deputy Attached Attorney General, said that the authority “is well established”,
