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Judge extends block on Trump administration’s funding freeze

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Washington, Feb 4: A judge in the nation’s capital kept a temporary block on a Trump administration’s plan for a freeze on federal funding Monday after some nonprofit groups said they’re still struggling to get promised grants and loans.
US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan extended an order she issued last week that paused a sweeping plan to freeze potentially trillions in federal spending. While the memo outlining it has since been rescinded, the Republican administration has said some kind of funding freeze is still planned as part of his blitz of executive orders.
A second judge in Rhode Island has also blocked any federal spending pause in a separate lawsuit filed by nearly two dozen Democratic states.
In the Washington lawsuit, several groups reported being unable to access promised federal funding even after the memo was rescinded. They ranged from childcare in Wisconsin to disability services in West Virginia to a small business research project on neutron generation and detection.
The Trump administration argues a brief pause in funding to align federal spending with the president’s agenda is within the law, and the court lacks constitutional authority to block it. (AP)

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