A federal judge on March 25 blocked the Trump administration’s cancellation of funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a nonprofit news group funded by money from the U.S. government’s United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
The administration’s termination of grants to the group, issued after an order from President Donald Trump directing officials to eliminate non-statutory components of the agency, likely violates a federal law that lets courts hold unlawful agency actions that are arbitrary or otherwise not in accordance with law, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled.
He pointed to how the termination letter to Radio Free Europe only offered that the award “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”…