Judge Enjoins Trump’s ‘Unilateral’ Freeze Of EPA, Other Grant Funding

January 31, 2025
Citing in part actions at EPA, a federal judge is blocking the Trump administration’s controversial funding freeze at EPA and other agencies, agreeing with Democratic states that the administration’s “unilateral” decision to indefinitely pause a variety of funding via the president’s executive orders (EOs) and other directives violates the Constitution and key statutes. “Congress has not given the Executive limitless power to broadly and indefinitely pause all funds that it has expressly directed to specific recipients and purposes, and therefore...


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