States Float Order Broadly Blocking Ongoing Trump Funding Freeze

January 30, 2025
A New York-led coalition of states is urging a federal court to broadly block the Trump administration from continuing to implement its controversial freeze of multiple EPA and other federal funds, a move that if approved would halt funding prohibitions in several executive orders (EOs) despite White House efforts to retain them. In a Jan. 30 motion in State of New York, et al. v. Donald Trump , the states asked a federal judge in Rhode Island to impose a...


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