US Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s freeze on federal grant and loan

An American judge temporarily stopped the order of President Donald Trump to freeze hundreds of billions of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans, before it was determined to implement on Tuesday.

The order of Judge Loren Alkhan was ordered to stop the plan at 17:00 EST (22:00 GMT) till next Monday, which came in response to the case filed earlier by a group of organizations representing grant recipients. Was.

The lawsuit claims that the White House already violate the temporary cold law of funding approved funding.

In the hours before the order came into effect, there was a widespread confusion about which agencies and programs would be affected.

The acting head of the budget office of the White House had instructed the agencies to “stop all federal financial assistance or all activities related to disbursement”.

It said that the purpose of the move was to give time to the new administration to assess what grants and loans were with their agenda.

White House press secretary Karolin Lewitt said that Trump’s plan to stop billions of dollars in funding of the US government was about being “good dollars of dollars”.

Talking to reporters in his first briefing, he said that the stagnation in funding would allow governments to cut the expenses for “wake up” gender issues and diversity programs.

But it inspired confusion, as well as anger from the protest data, on Tuesday who receives federal loans and grants – such as non -profit and research organizations – is considered with the reality of rapidly losing.

Judge Alkhan said on Tuesday that she was issuing a brief stay that would “preserve the status quo” until she could have a verbal argument, now set for Monday morning.

White House instructions could affect billions of dollars for federal programs, from disaster relief to cancer research.

In a post on X, the National Council of Non -Profits President Dianne Yentale, the lawsuit, celebrated the ruling.

“Our case was successful – the US district court is blocking OMB (management and budget office) from proceeding on its careless plan to stop federal funds,” she wrote.

In the trial, his organization wrote that Trump’s order “essentially wants to eradicate all federal grant programs”.

It argues that Trump’s order is “without any legal basis or time of logic” and the entire United States and beyond effects will have an impact.

It is different from an action by a coalition of Democratic states, who filed a suit on Tuesday to block the order, called it unconstitutional.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also defended the directive before the announcement of the judge’s decision, asked reporters that this would allow the government to get “credit control”.

“It does not affect any federal programs that trust Americans,” he said, answering a question whether “food on food” food distribution program would be affected.

On Tuesday, many states reported issues reaching money through a government health insurance program, Medicade for low -income people. The White House later said that the program would not be affected and this problem will be solved soon.

It was also stated that social security benefits would not be affected, nor any program “which provides direct benefits to individuals”, including supplementary nutrition aid program, is known as Snap or Food Stamp.

In the letter to the White House, the top Democrats expressed the “extreme alarm” about the plan to stop funding.

Washington’s Senator Patty died and Connecticut Congress Vomon Roja Delero said, “The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have disastrous consequences across the country.”

The American Senate Democratic minority leader, Chak Shumar, said the move would cause payroll and rent to be paid, and would cause “chaos”.