Several Democratic state attorneys general will file a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) freeze on federal grants, loans, and other financial assistance, New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Jan. 28.
James’s lawsuit, joined by California and Massachusetts, is directed at OMB Acting Director Matthew Vaeth, who carried out the Trump administration’s sweeping policy change in a memorandum on Monday.
“The president does not get to decide which laws to enforce and for whom,” James said on a press call with reporters.
Hours earlier, the National Council of Nonprofits, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance, and SAGE, a New York LGBT nonprofit, filed a similar lawsuit challenging OMB’s directive, arguing it would “have a devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of grant recipients.”…