Judge Cites ‘Chaos’ in Blocking Trump’s Grant-Funding Freeze (1)

A federal judge issued a long-term block on the Trump administration’s plan to freeze grants, loans and other payments, extending a temporary order and criticizing US officials for actions that were “irrational, imprudent, and precipitated a nationwide crisis.”

US District Judge Loren AliKhan’s order issued in Washington Tuesday bars agencies from executing “unilateral, non-individualized” funding cut-offs that implicated potentially trillions of federal dollars. The nonprofit groups that sued showed they faced the risk of “economically catastrophic” effects without the block, even though the Office of Management and Budget swiftly rescinded the original January memo that kicked off the legal ...