Judge Denies Trump Bid to Toss Out Suit Over Funding Freeze (2)

The Trump administration offered “no rationale” for cutting off potentially trillions of dollars in federal funding of grants, loans and other financial assistance to recipients nationwide with less than 24 hours notice to conduct an ideological review, a judge said.

US District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington on Monday denied a request by the White House Office of Management and Budget to dismiss a suit filed by a national group of nonprofits challenging the funding freeze. She also granted the group’s request for a temporary restraining order against the freeze, the second such ruling in less than a week.

AliKhan, ...