A federal judge found the Trump administration hasn't fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and ordered the White House to release all money.
President Donald Trump is pictured before boarding Air Force One at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. Essentially, U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell wants his order of Jan. 31 followed.
More than 20 state attorneys general, co-led by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, sued the Trump administration in January over its freeze on federal government funding to various programs.The states subsequently argued some funds were still frozen and not being disbursed by the federal government.
McConnell, in his order Monday, counters the Trump administration argument that the freeze was to root out fraud. “But the freezes in effect now were a result of the broad categorical order, not a specific finding of possible fraud. The broad categorical and sweeping freeze of federal funds is, as the Court found, likely unconstitutional and has caused and continues to cause irreparable harm to a vast portion of this country. These pauses in funding violate the plain text of the TRO,” McConnell wrote.
McConnell ordered that funds already allocated in the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs Act, passed during the Biden administration, must be restored.
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