Judge Blocks Trump's Funding Freeze, Saying White House Put Itself 'Above Congress'
Source: New York Times
March 6, 2025, 10:17 a.m. ET
A federal judge on Thursday extended an order barring the Trump administration from withholding billions in congressionally approved funds to 22 states and the District of Columbia. The ruling, which builds on the judge’s temporary order instructing the government to keep the money flowing, sets up a broader clash between Democratic states’ attorneys general over the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul spending to align with the president’s agenda.
In an opinion handed down on Thursday morning, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Island said the lawsuit came down to a case of executive overreach, in which top administration officials had required agencies to withhold funds authorized by Congress.
A memo from the White House budget office had demanded a pause on billions in grants until the administration could determine that the funding complied with Mr. Trump’s priorities, setting off days of confusion and alarm.
Judge McConnell wrote that without the injunction, “the funding that the states are due and owed creates an indefinite limbo.” “Here, the executive put itself above Congress,” he wrote. “It imposed a categorical mandate on the spending of congressionally appropriated and obligated funds without regard to Congress’s authority to control spending.”
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We need more federal judges like you!
letting millions of starving children and babies die and let their food for survival perish in warehouses... 
Started to already. 
