The US judge suspended President Donald Trump temporarily to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars from grants and federal loans, minutes before entering into force on Tuesday.
Judge Lauren Alejhan ordered the plan to stop the plan until next Monday at 17:00 EST (22:00 GMT) in response to a lawsuit filed by a group of organizations representing grant recipients.
The lawsuit claims that the temporary freezing of the White House of financing is already violating the law.
In the preceding hours, there was in effect, there was widespread confusion about agencies and programs that would be affected.
The Acting President of the White House budget office instructed the agencies to “stop all activities related to obligations or temporarily disburse all federal financial assistance.”
She said that this step was aimed at giving the new administration time to evaluate grants and loans in a step with their agenda.
White House journalist Caroline Levit said that Trump's plan to stop billions of dollars in financing the US government was about “the good rulers of the tax dollar.”
Speaking to journalists in her first briefing at all, she said that the stopping of funding will allow governments to reduce spending on “waking” gender issues and diversity programs.
But he pushed confusion, as well as anger at opposition figures, on Tuesday as those who receive loans and scholarships – such as non -profit organizations and research organizations – calculate the fact that rapid financing loss.
Judge Alejhan said on Tuesday that she issued a short stay “that will maintain the status quo” so that she can carry an oral argument, now on Monday morning.
The guidance of the White House can have affected billions of dollars for federal programs, from disaster relief to cancer research.
In a publication on X, Diane Yentel, head of the National Council of Non -profit organizations, celebrated the organization, with the ruling.
She wrote: “It was a successful lawsuit – the American boycott court (the administration and budget office) prohibits the advancement of its reckless plan to stop federal financing.”
In the lawsuit, her organization wrote that Trump's order is seeking to “eliminate all federal grant programs.”
Gety picturesHe argues that Trump's order “is free of any legal basis or the logical basis” and will have ripples throughout the entire United States and abroad.
This is separate from the action by a coalition from the democratic countries that filed a lawsuit later on Tuesday to prevent the matter, describing it as unconstitutional.
Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, also defended the guidance before announcing the judge’s decision, and reported that this would allow the government to obtain “credit monitoring.”
“It does not affect any federal programs that the Americans depend on,” he said, and he answers a question about whether the “meals on wheels” will be affected.
On Tuesday, many states reported issues that reach money through the Medicaid program, a government health insurance program for low -income persons. The White House later said that the program will not be affected and that the problem will be solved soon.
He also said that the advantages of social security will not be affected, and that any program “provides direct benefits to individuals”, including the additional nutritional assistance program, known as Snap or Food Stamps.
In a message to the White House, senior Democrats expressed “severe alert” about the plan to stop funding.
“The scope of what you require is to breathe, and unprecedented, and it will have severe consequences throughout the country,” Senator Washington Patty Murray and a member of Congress at Connecticut Rosa Deloro.
The leader of the democratic minority of the US Senate, Chak Schumer, said this step will cause salaries and lease payments, and cause “chaos.”
