The US judge temporarily blocks the Federal Financing of Trump Administration | News Donald Trump
The United States Judge temporarily blocked the command from the President Donald Trump Freezing funds for a wide range of federal programs.
The decision on Tuesday came shortly before Trump’s Directive was supposed to take effect at 17:00 EST (22:00 GMT).
Critics warned that the command could disrupt education, health care, reduction in poverty and a disaster assistance scheme.
However, officials in the Trump government claimed that freezing funds needed to ensure that all funds in accordance with Trump’s priorities, including his decline about diversity, equality and inclusions (dei) initiative.
The management and budget office, which oversees the federal budget, said in the memorandum that freezing included any money intended for “foreign assistance” and for “Non -governmental organization”, among other categories.
The White House said the break would not affect the payment of social security and Medicara or “the help given directly by individuals.”
This means that some food programs for the poor would not be affected, the sources said to the Reuters news agency.
However, freezing financing could at least temporarily affect the trillion of dollars and cause potential interruptions in healthcare studies, educational programs and other initiatives. Even grants that have been assigned but not spent should be stopped according to the order.
Already Tuesday of the agency states and early educational centers seemed to fight Access the medicaid money -Smoking program with low income-and head starts, a scheme that provides support in early childhood.
Four groups representing non -profit organizations, professionals of public health and small businesses filed a lawsuit that encouraged the judge’s decision on Tuesday.
They claimed that Trump’s order “would have a devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of grants.”
“Since pausing research on childhood cancer to stop food assistance, domestic violence security and hot -linry to suicide, even a short break in financing could be devastating and costing lives,” Diane Yentel, President and Executive director National Council of Non -Profit Organizations, according to a statement. Her group was among the four groups involved in a lawsuit on Tuesday.
US District Judge Loren Alikhan eventually ruled to stop Trump’s command until he was heard on February 3.
Democratic Attorney Generals have also committed to fighting a warrant in court.
This includes New York Attorney General Letitia James, who said she was planning to ask the Federal Court of Manhattan to block the moves of a Republican president.
“My office will take direct legal proceedings against the unconstitutional pause of this administration on federal financing,” James said on social media. “We will not sit still as this administration is harming our families.”
Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Democratic Congressman of Florida, also said in social media publish On Tuesday afternoon that his team was on the phone with multiple agencies and organizations that were “completely cut off from federal money”.
“We are talking about accommodation, homeless services, public security,” he wrote, warning that freezing “could have drastic local influences.”
We were phone with multiple agencies/organs. They are completely cut off from federal money. We are talking about accommodation, homeless, public security, etc.
Today I call a press conference to explain that it could have drastic local influences on our voters.
– Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@Maxwellfrostfl) 28 January 2025
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Trump’s administration has no authority to prevent consumption approved by the US Congress.
“This decision is without iniquity, destructive, cruel,” Schumer said in Senate’s speech. “American families will suffer the most.”
The US Constitution gives the congress control over consumption issues, but Trump said during his campaign that he believes that the president has the power to reject money from a program he does not like.
Congressman Tom Emmer, one of the best Republicans in the House of Representatives, said Trump simply followed his promises about the campaign.
“You have to understand that he has been chosen to take the status quo. It will do it. It won’t be a job as usual,” Emmer told reporters to withdraw Republican politics in Miami.
The spokeswoman for the Karolina Leavitt White House also defended the decision of the administration, saying to reporters on Tuesday afternoon that Trump and his team acted as “good dollars of taxpayers.”
“This is not a break of a break on federal assistance and the Program of Trump Administration. Individual assistance that includes … Benefits for social security, Medicare’s benefits, food stamps, well -being fees, help that goes directly to individuals will not influence.”
Leavitt said that freezing “no longer means funding for illegal dei programs” or for “Green New Rememency”, the term Trump and his allies used to describe the measures taken by former President Joe Biden to resolve the climate crisis.
“That doesn’t mean more financing transgenderism and struggle in our federal bureaucracy and agencies,” she said.
The Office for Management and Budget is the latest Directive in Trump’s encouragement to dramatically transform the federal government, the largest employer in the country, since he is assumed duty on January 20.
From the beginning of his second term, Trump has taken dozens of executive actions, including closing programs of Dei and the imposition of federal freezing.
Last week, the President also signed an executive command to send all agencies of the Federal Government to adoption 90-day break about foreign assistance and review of existing programs.
Days later, the US State Department told the record that almost all new funds for foreign assistance programs, with exceptions to the best allies of the Middle East, Israel and Egypt in the country, said in the record.
As part of this suspension of assistance, the administration has moved to stop the distribution of medicines for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by the United States for International Development (USAID).
The US is the biggest individual donor globally, paying $ 72 billion in 2023.
