Pennsylvania context
Governor Josh Shapiro said on Wednesday that although Trump’s administration has restored access to systems needed to support programs financed by federally, including Medicaid and Head Start, which provide services primarily to residents with low income or marginalized, he condemned the freezing as cluttered and reckless.
“Do not let anyone say that it was a technical fault,” Shapiro said when the financing at an unrelated press conference was asked. “They were very targeted, trying to having havoc in our communities and stop these federal dollars from our states.”
Pennsylvania consists in the federal government for about one third of his budget, and Shapiro said that he hopes that as President Donald Trump he will carry out executive activities, he considers influence on everyone in the country.
“When you keep funds to Pennsylvania, it hurts our veterans. It hurts our farmers. It hurts our children in the care of children. It still hinders us to lead the nation in repairing bridges, “said Shapiro.
“It is really vital that we have constructive relationships with our federal partners. And what happened yesterday was not constructive. What happened yesterday was really reckless and really perilous – he said.
-Peter Hall, Capital-Star Pennsylvania
Washington – the second federal judge seems to be ready to issue an order blocking Trump’s administration before freezing financing of subsidies and loans programs, despite removal by the management office and budget in order to cancel the controversial note on Wednesday before the hearing.
Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. From the American District Court at Rhode Island, he decided not to issue his ruling during a virtual hearing, saying that for the first time he wanted a democratic prosecutor general, who filed a lawsuit to suggest how such an order could be formulated. Then he wants to hear from the lawyer of the Department of Justice, arguing the case on behalf of the Trump administration about the scope of this possible order.
McConnell, who was appointed former President Barack Obama, said that general prosecutors convinced him that the Trump administration would probably continue financing in detail in detail in detail in the OMB note in some way, based on a post in social media from among the social media, a press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt.
“This has not changed based on the comments of the press secretary of the president,” said McConnell. “And so I am willing to grant a order to embarrass, although I fight how it would be formulated and how it would be.”
The McConnell ruling would be the second order blocking Trump’s administration, implementing the expenditure pause for specific grant and loan programs.
District judge Loren L. Alikhan on Tuesday issued a brief -term administrative stay preventing the administration of President Donald Trump before starting to freeze expenses. Then she established a hearing in this matter, brought by organizations that receive federal funds on February 3.
The original note, published on Monday evening by the Management and Budget Bureau, led to universal confusion and frustration among organizations such as meals on wheels and scholarship holders, which are based on financing the matters of the Veterans Department, as well as the members of the Congress of the event.
Ajar
The Trump Management and Budget Budget Office repealed this note on Wednesday, although Leavitt’s comments just after that led to even greater confusion just before the trial began.
Leavitt wrote Post on social media That the OMB cancellation of the note “did not withdraw the federal freezing of financing.”
“It’s just a dismissal of OMB,” Leavitt wrote. “Why? To end all the confusion caused by the Court.”
“EO of the president about federal funds remains fully strength and effect and will be rigorously implemented,” she added.
Separately, Leavitt issued a written statement to reporters, which seemed to suggest that the cancellation of OMB financing notes was aimed at bypassing the order of Alinhan.
“In the light of the OMB order, he canceled the note to end all the confusion in federal policy created by a court decision and unfair relations in the media,” wrote Leavitt in a statement. “Executive orders issued by the president on financing reviews remain fully and effective and will be rigorously implemented by all agencies and departments. This action should effectively terminate the court case and allow the government to focus on enforcing the president’s orders to control federal expenses. In the coming weeks and months, further executive activities will continue to end the gross waste of federal financing. “
They praise the withdrawal from the note accordingly
Republican Senator Maine Susan Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Funds Committee, was satisfied with the OMB action before Leavitt’s position and interrogation.
“I am glad that OMB cancers a note imposing wide breaks in federal programs,” wrote Collins in a statement. “Although incoming administrations are not unusual to browse federal programs and rules, this note was exaggerated and caused unnecessary confusion and consternation.”
Patty Murray, D-Wash. It was also before weighing Leavitt.
“This is an important victory for the American people, whose voices were heard after a huge pressure from every corner of this country – real people made a difference, speaking,” wrote Murray. “Despite this, Trump’s administration – by combining pure incompetence, cruel intentions and deliberate disregard of the law,” caused real damage and chaos to millions in the last 48 hours, which are still ongoing. “
White House assurances
Ombium Decision to cancel the note Wednesday took place on Tuesday in the White House that the freezing of expenses would not affect social security, Medicare, Medicaid and direct food assistance programs, such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance or Snap.
Two separate lawsuits were filed in the Federal District Court that want to block the OMB note on Tuesday evening at 17:00.
A lawsuit filed by the National Council of Nonfits, American Public Health Association and Main Street Alliance led to the federal judge of the Alikhan District Court, which put away the ephemeral freezing of expenses until February 3 at 17:00
The second lawsuit, heard on Wednesday, was filed by democratic general prosecutors from New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Northern Carolina, Mexico, Oregon Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and District of Columbia.
Last updated 17:42, January 29, 2025
