An American judge temporarily interrupted President Donald Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal subsidies and loans, a few minutes before he entered into force on Tuesday.
The order of judge Loren Alikhan to suspend the plan until next Monday at 5:00 p.m. (10 p.m. GMT) came in response to a trial brought earlier during the day by a group of organizations representing the beneficiaries of subsidies.
The trial claims that the temporary freezing of the White House of funding already approved violates the law.
In the hours preceding the order, there was a generalized confusion on the agencies and programs that would be affected.
The head of actor of the White House budget office had asked the agencies to “temporarily suspend all the activities related to the obligations or the disbursement of all federal financial aid”.
He said this decision was intended to give the new administration time to assess subsidies and loans in tune with their program.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s plan to suspend billions of dollars in the financing of the United States government was to be “good tax -of -dollars”.
Addressing journalists in her very first briefing, she said that the financing break would allow governments to reduce spending on “awakened” gender problems and diversity programs.
But that caused confusion, as well as the anger of opposition figures, Tuesday as those who receive loans and federal subsidies – such as non -profit organizations and research organizations – considered with the reality of losing quickly funds.
Judge Alikhan said on Tuesday that it published a brief stay which “would preserve the status quo” until it could hold an oral argument, now scheduled on Monday morning.
The White House directive could have had an impact on billions of dollars intended for federal programs, ranging from help in the event of disaster in cancer research.
In an article on X, Diane Yertel, president of the National Council of Non -Lucrative Organizations, the organization that brought a trial, celebrated the decision.
“Our trial has succeeded-The American district court prevents the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) from making the future on its unbound plan to stop federal funding,” she wrote.
In the trial, his organization wrote that Trump’s order seeks to “eradicate essentially all federal grant programs”.
Getty imagesHe argues that Trump’s order is “devoid of any legal basis or the most nauseating justification” and will have training effects in all the United States and beyond.
This is distinct from an action of a coalition of democratic states which put legal action later Tuesday to block the order, the unconstitutional calling.
Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff to the White House, also defended the directive before the judge’s decision, telling journalists that would allow the government to obtain “credit control”.
“This has no impact on the federal programs that the Americans count,” he said, answering a question of whether the food delivery program “meal on wheels” would be affected.
On Tuesday, several states declared problems which accessed funds via Medicaid, a government health insurance program for low -income people. The White House later said that the program would not be affected and that the problem would be solved soon.
He also said that social security benefits would not be affected, and no program “which would not provide direct advantages to individuals”, including the additional nutritional assistance program, called Snap or Coup de couple.
In a letter to the White House, the best democrats expressed an “extreme alarm” in terms of suspending funding.
“The scope of what you order is breathtaking, unprecedented and will have devastating consequences across the country,” wrote Washington Senator Patty Murray and the MP for Connecticut Rosa Delauro.
The chief of the Democrat minority of the American Senate, Chuck Schumer, said that this decision would cause payments of pay and missed rents and cause “chaos”.
