With the expiration on February 3, his temporary order of retaining the Federal Freeze Freezing of the Trump Administration, the Judge of the North District Court -American Loren L. Alikhan in Washington, DC, has issued a new sentence that one. Day to expand the block on freezing, which two claims are illegal, but the administration argued that it would be brief and not harmful.
A federal judge, John McConnell, in Rhode Island, at the end of January 31, issued a temporary containment order, which was requested by 22 democratic states and Washington, DC, which prevents the Trump administration from freezing. Federal funding.
Two national associations had won several days earlier a Judge Alikhan’s immediate temporary containment order of a plan announced by the Federal Management and Budget Office for a “temporary pause” to review all federal funds from January 28 Related to the Trump Administration Executive Orders announced after the inauguration of January 20.
While the Shadow note was terminated, Judge Alikhan’s previous order only expanded the freezing strip of funding until February 3.
In his new order, the judge says that the new concerns raised by the two healthcare groups and funding financing groups, “the statements and evidence presented … paints a strong image of the national panic as a result of freezing. of financing. Organizations with all conceivable missions (health care, scientific research, emergency shelters and much more) were closed from funding portals or critical resources were denied. ”
Judge Alikhan added: “Because the freezing of funding threatens the lifestyle that keeps organizations operational, the plaintiffs have fulfilled their burden on showing irreparable damage.” But in the court archives, the United States Justice Department said that the judge’s action, “if it was allowed to continue, would constitute an extraordinary intrusion into the executive branch.”
They are still a little unclear, there are also some differences in the amplitude of applicability to the order of Judge Alikhan and on Friday by Judge McConnell
Potentially affected are the subsidies and loans of the local and local government granted by virtue of the Act of Reduction of Inflation and the Law of Investment and jobs of infrastructure, with the online publication of Heatmap that publishes a list of climate Federal, energy, disaster assistance, environmental credit and other government -based programs. Data obtained by States Newsroom not specifically confirmed by Shado. But it stands out on the list and media reports, as it is potentially at risk is to finance energy programs such as the cleaning of oil and gas wells and a hydrogen production and a U.S. investigation from 7 billion of dollars in funding of the Biden administration granted to seven new public-private centers.
Industry Groups: “Certainty” is MIA
In the meantime, commercial groups in the construction sector are still not sure what freezing means for their members.
Tom Smith, executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, says that members cover the whole range of political views, those and others involved in the planning of infrastructure programs “want certainty” on the levels of funding. Smith said that Asce and members press legislators to promote the continuous release of already appropriate funding under the Law of the Law of Infrastructure and Bipartisan inflation.
Ben Brubeck, associate builders and vice president of the contractors. His group “is in contact with the Trump administration that seeks clarity on how they will affect these freezes to contractors and their projects, and we hope you explain an additional guidance [their] Scope. “In the meantime, ABC encourages members to have” continuous conversations with their partners, clients and interested parties from the Federal Agency to receive federal aid. “
Republican Shelley Moore Capito, the Virginia Senate Republican of West Virginia, which is part of a regional nucleus of Appalachia with Ohio and Pennsylvania, granted up to $ 925 million in financing by 2023 under virtue. From the Infrastructure Act, he said that on January 23, the money “was assigned for projects as projects [the hub] Should not be interrupted, “confusing Trump” did not mean money that has already been forced. ” Risk is $ 1.2 billion.
Federal agencies are aimed at completing a “comprehensive analysis” in 90 days of all financial assistance programs affected by Trump’s executive orders.
The 22 lawyers of the democratic state calling for the demand of the Federal Court of Rhode Island are New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island. Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. .
New York Attorney General, Letitia James, said that the financing pause was unconstitutional. Others 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 boycotted the Senate vote of January 30 to confirm Russell Vought, an architect of the Ultra-Conservative 2025 policy agenda, to lead shade until the Trump administration released freezing on funding. already appropriate federal.
Vaeth had described the withholding as a necessary to provide the 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. ”
Impacts
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 also review programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion programs as part of the global orientation of what his note called “Green New Deal Social Engineering policies are a loss of $ one of the taxpayers It does not improve the daily life of which we serve. ” of the President “. He defended the financing break as” within the power of the President. ”
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 Vouught candidacy.
