President Trump arrives at the White House after visiting New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. A federal judge revealed on Monday that the administration had not fully followed its order to thaw federal expenses.
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A federal judge of Rhode Island noted that the Trump administration had continued to frozen certain federal funds, despite a temporary prohibition order Emitted at the end of last month, blocking his efforts to suspend payments for subsidies and other federal programs.
In a five -page order issued on Monday, the judge of the American district court John McConnell, Jr. wrote that the administration, in several cases, continued to “freeze the federal funds and refused to resume the disbursement of the funds appropriate federal “.
Monday’s decision came in response to a trial brought by the general prosecutors in 22 states and the Columbia district. In his decision, McConnell ordered the administration to “immediately restore frozen funding” and “immediately put a break from federal funding” which affects the challengers.
The Trump administration argued in a judicial file leading to the decision he had acted “in good faith to interpret the scope of the court order (temporary ordinance) and quickly resume any funding which is submitted to it”.
The ordinance is one of the two proceedings brought against the administration in response to the attempted financing break, originally detailed in a service note by the management and budget office at the end of January. The service note was canceled a few days after its release, but the White House said that an examination of federal funding was still necessary to ensure that expenses align on the agenda of the president.
In his order, McConnell declared that the frost was “probably unconstitutional and caused and continues to harm irreparable to a large part of this country”.
The judge underlined the complainants’ information in the event that funding continued to undergo delays and remains inaccessible after the order of the initial court. In an exhibition accompanying the judge’s order, the States have listed the financing of several agencies, in particular the environmental protection agency, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Health and Social Services.
The ordinance also orders the administration to restore any retained funding which has been appropriate through the law on the reduction of inflation and the law on the improvement of infrastructure and jobs – both adopted during of the Biden administration.
In its deposit on Sunday, the Trump administration argued that the temporary prohibition order did not “extend unambiguously” to these expenses because it was interrupted Under a note from the separate OMB.
Among the lawyers general contesting the freeness freeness of the administration is Letitia James of New York, which celebrated the victory decision on Monday for “millions of Americans in need”.
“The law is clear: the president does not have the power to reduce the expenses he wants,” James wrote in a statement published on social networks. “I will continue to make sure that this administration follows the law.”
In addition to order in the Rhode Island, A federal judge in Washington DC Also made a temporary prohibition prescription against the administration – preventing the memo from taking effect and to intervene in the administration to make it “under a different name”.
