Federal Judge Expands Order Blocking Funding Freeze

NPR reports:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a temporary restraining order against a Trump administration effort to freeze funding for federal grants and other programs.

Monday’s order by U.S. Judge Loren AliKhan comes in response to a memo released by the Office of Management and Budget last week directing the funding pause. The memo spurred a legal challenge from a group of nonprofits, prompting the judge to initially order a temporary stay.

The temporary restraining order expands the scope of the initial pause the court put in place last week, just as the funding freeze was set to take effect. In her latest order, AliKhan blocked the administration “from implementing, giving effect to, or reinstating under a different name the directives” in the original OMB memo.

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