A federal judge in Washington on Feb. 25 extended her block of the Trump administration’s freeze of federal funding.
U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan issued a preliminary injunction enjoining federal officials from freezing grants and loans until further notice.
Groups that sued the government over the freeze had on Feb. 3 won a temporary restraining order against the freeze because the judge concluded that officials “cut the fuel supply to a vast, complicated, nationwide machine—seemingly without any consideration for the consequences of that decision.”
The National Council of Nonprofits and other groups said a more permanent block was needed to keep federal funding flowing to nonprofits and small businesses that rely on it….