DC Federal Judge Temporarily blocks the Trump plan to set federal assistance to use federal aid expenses

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Washington – a federal district judge on Tuesday awarded an administrative stay in a case that challenged the Trump administration’s planned freezing of federal assistance, paused the plan for a week and put a hearing for further arguments next Monday morning.

The order applies only to the break of payments in open grants, Judge Loren Alikhan said. And it doesn’t come into the legality of the freezer, instead of just giving the court more time for orientations.

Freeze was scheduled to begin Tuesday at. 17.00

The planned freezer is part of a sweeping effort by President Donald Trump and his advisers to eliminate public spending that is not in line with his agenda. The move was announced in a memo on Monday night from the acting director of Office of Management and Budget, who said agencies should “temporarily break all activities related to the commitment or payment of all federal financial assistance and other relevant agency activities that may be Implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance to foreign aid, non -state organizations, dei, woke up gender ideology and the green new agreement.

The freezer immediately triggered confusion about exactly what types of federal expenses would be affected. And Tuesday’s judicial decision was just the first step in what is expected to be an important legal battle over the issue that could quickly end before the Supreme Court.

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Daniel Barnes

Shannon PettyPiece and Lawrence Hurley contributed.