Federal judge sides with New York, orders pause to Trump efforts to freeze federal funding

A 2nd national justice connected Friday ordered a impermanent intermission successful Trump medication efforts to frost national funding successful the latest twist implicit the spending of trillions of dollars successful grants and loans.

Judge John McConnell sided with New York and astir 2 twelve different states that requested an bid preventing astir national agencies from halting backing until the tribunal rules connected a petition from the states for a preliminary injunction.

“During the pendency of the Temporary Restraining Order, Defendants shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, oregon terminate Defendants’ compliance with awards and obligations to supply national fiscal assistance to the States, and Defendants shall not impede the States’ entree to specified awards and obligations, but connected the ground of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms,” wrote McConnell, who was appointed by erstwhile President Barack Obama.

The national authorities had opposed the order, arguing determination was nary ground for what they described arsenic “sweeping relief.”

McConnell’s determination comes contempt the Office of Management and Budget rescinding a memo that froze spending connected national loans and grants.

The memo, which was issued earlier this week by the OMB, had frightened states, schools and organizations that trust connected trillions of dollars from Washington.

— By MICHAEL CASEY