The National Urban League and several local housing nonprofits nationwide challenged part of the Trump administration’s last-minute cancellation of congressionally appropriated funds.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on one portion of the $810 million cancellation the Trump administration announced last week, a $56 million cut within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The filing is the first of likely others over the sweeping cuts, which the Government Accountability Office has said are illegal.