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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Kunzelman and Peter Smith

Judge won't immediately block Trump administration’s abrupt halt to Catholic refugee funding

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A federal judge on Thursday refused to block the Trump administration’s abrupt halt to funding of the nation’s largest private refugee resettlement program in a setback to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Judge Trevor McFadden denied the bishops’ request for a temporary restraining order that would have restored the funding but called his ruling “very tentative."

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