Trump Defying Court Block on Spending Freeze, State AGs Say (1)

Feb. 7, 2025, 9:43 PM UTCUpdated: Feb. 7, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

The Trump administration isn’t complying with a judge’s order to unfreeze $3 trillion in federal funds, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Friday, citing a number of projects that continue to be locked out of federal funds.

A coalition of Democratic-led states, including California, filed a motion in Rhode Island federal court on Friday to enforce the temporary restraining order.

State agencies have “received inconsistent guidance, cancelled and un-cancelled meetings, and inexplicably patchwork restorations of some grants but not others,” the emergency motion said.

Funds supporting greenhouse gas reduction, air monitoring, and solar energy are still frozen, according to the ...

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