The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court for clearance to withhold potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training grants, once again seeking emergency help from the high court for the president’s efforts to decimate established federal spending programs.
The latest filing seeks to lift a lower court order that temporarily requires continued payments to projects in the eight states that sued after the Education Department said it was canceling 104 of 109 grants under two training programs.
“The order to open the funding spigots irreparably harms” the government because it likely won’t get the money back, acting US ...