Trump blocked from imposing sweeping federal funding freeze

A U.S. judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from instituting a sweeping freeze on trillions of dollars in federal funding by pausing grants, loans and other financial support.

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington wrote, opens new tab that while some funds had become unfrozen since she first temporarily blocked the administration's spending pause, there remained a risk the administration might again try to shut off funding.

The judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden, said for those reasons she agreed with groups representing nonprofits and small business that a preliminary injunction was necessary to block a further funding freeze.

"The injunctive relief that defendants fought so hard to deny is the only thing in this case holding potentially catastrophic harm at bay," the judge wrote.

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