A group of states and a group of national nonprofits filed separate legal challenges Tuesday to halt the Trump administration’s vast freeze of federal grant funding, arguing that the move violated federal administrative law.
A lawsuit from the National Council of Nonprofits, American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance and SAGE appeared to be the first of what is expected to be a flood of lawsuits over the Trump administration’s decision to temporarily halt billions of dollars in federal funding effective Tuesday at 5 p.m.
The judge in that case, District Judge Loren L. AliKhan, blocked the Trump administration from implementation of the memo just before that deadline. She issued what she called a “brief administrative stay,” ruling that the funding freeze cannot go into effect until at least Feb. 3, pending a further hearing.
