US EditionTrump administration cannot implement 'sweeping' funding freeze, US court rules
The court upheld an injunction against a $3 trillion freeze on federal aid from a January 2025 memo, citing failure to consider recipients' reliance interests, officials said.
- On Monday, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld Rhode Island-based U.S. District Judge John McConnell's March 2025 injunction blocking a freeze on trillions in aid and his order directing FEMA to comply.
- The January 2025 memo from the Office of Management and Budget instructed agencies to pause spending while reviewing grants for alignment with executive orders, then withdrew it after lawsuits.
- The three-judge panel in Boston sided with Democratic attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and Chief U.S. Circuit Judge David Barron said OMB froze funds without considering recipients' reliance interests.
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Appeals judges crush Trump’s 'unlawful' spending freeze
Law and Crime reports a federal court of appeals upheld a series of lower court orders barring the Trump administration from enforcing a "sweeping and unprecedented categorical" spending "freeze.”In one 58-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit took a group of "consolidated appeals" of several different orders and mostly rejected the White House’s argument in favor of continuing the freeze. Judges found the Trump administrat…
US appeals court blocks Trump administration federal agency funding freeze
A US federal appellate court upheld a lower court decision on Monday, finding that the Trump administration’s “sweeping” suspension of funding for administrative agencies in 2025 was likely unlawful. In the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit opinion, authored by Chief Judge David J. Barron, the court blocked the vast suspension of funding for federal agencies imposed by an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) January 2025 memo. Twenty-tw…
Trump administration cannot implement 'sweeping' funding freeze, US court rules
A federal appeals court on Monday largely upheld a ruling that blocked a "sweeping and unprecedented" freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance that President Donald Trump's administration instituted early last year.
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Zero HedgeFederal Government Cannot Implement Sweeping Funding Freeze: Appeals Court
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from freezing trillions of dollars in funding to states. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit panel of judges said in the March 16 ruling that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) arbitrarily and capriciously directed agencies in early 2025 to pause funding. The OMB “directed the Agency Defendants to freeze such funds without con…
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