A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore a whopping $500 million in federal grant funding that was frozen at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction, stating that the government likely broke the law when it froze the funding by violating the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires specific procedures and explanations for federal funding cuts.
Instead of providing any real details, the administration just sent out generalized form letters to UCLA, saying that multiple grants were being suspended. Harvard pointed out that these had many mistakes aside from being illegal, but Trump continued. It’s a pretty big deal, especially since this ruling brings back hundreds of medical research grants from the National Institutes of Health, which include studies on things like Parkinson’s disease treatment, cancer recovery, and nerve regeneration.
