{"id":154,"date":"2025-01-29T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:47:36","slug":"state-attorneys-general-file-suit-challenging-president-trumps-freeze-on-federal-grants-and-loans-d-c-district-court-judge-temporarily-blocks-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2025\/01\/29\/state-attorneys-general-file-suit-challenging-president-trumps-freeze-on-federal-grants-and-loans-d-c-district-court-judge-temporarily-blocks-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"State Attorneys General File Suit Challenging President Trump\u2019s Freeze on Federal Grants and Loans; D.C. District Court Judge Temporarily Blocks Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Christopher H. Casey, Daniel R. Walworth and Sara Smith<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 28, 2025, attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia filed a complaint in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25507197-new-york-et-al-v-trump-et-al-complaint-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island<\/a>&nbsp;seeking a temporary restraining order against the Trump Administration\u2019s proposed spending freeze on federal grants and loans. The state attorneys general include New York, California, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. The complaint alleges that the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s (OMB) proposed pause on federal spending violates the Administrative Procedure Act because it is contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious, the Separation of Powers doctrine because it usurps the legislative function, and the Spending, Presentment, Appropriations, and Take Care Clauses of the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also on January 28, 2025, several nonprofit organizations, led by the National Council of Nonprofits, <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.276842\/gov.uscourts.dcd.276842.1.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed suit<\/a>&nbsp;in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a temporary restraining order \u201cto maintain the status quo until the Court has an opportunity to more fully consider the illegality of OMB\u2019s actions.\u201d The plaintiffs allege that the OMB\u2019s proposed spending freeze violates the Administrative Procedure, is contrary to the First Amendment, and exceeds OMB\u2019s statutory authority.&nbsp; Judge Loren AliKhan\u2014just one day after OMB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/federal_grants_loans_temporarily_paused_under_new_guidance_0125.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued the temporary pause<\/a>, and shortly before it was to take effect\u2014temporarily blocked the proposed pause, preventing the Trump Administration from implementing the spending freeze. Judge AliKhan\u2019s temporary order will remain in effect until February 3, 2025, at 5:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher H. Casey, Daniel R. Walworth and Sara Smith On January 28, 2025, attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island&nbsp;seeking a temporary restraining order against the Trump Administration\u2019s proposed spending freeze on federal grants and loans. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2025\/01\/29\/state-attorneys-general-file-suit-challenging-president-trumps-freeze-on-federal-grants-and-loans-d-c-district-court-judge-temporarily-blocks-freeze\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State Attorneys General File Suit Challenging President Trump\u2019s Freeze on Federal Grants and Loans; D.C. District Court Judge Temporarily Blocks Freeze&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,21,30,22,23,61,63,66,50,24,51,25,41,53,26,67,52,65,20,54,27,55,62,68,64,29,56,69],"ppma_author":[8,9],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arizona","tag-california","tag-chris-casey","tag-colorado","tag-connecticut","tag-dan-walworth","tag-dc-district-court","tag-delaware","tag-hawaii","tag-illinois","tag-maine","tag-maryland","tag-massachusetts","tag-michigan","tag-minnesota","tag-nevada","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-york","tag-north-carolina","tag-oregon","tag-rhode-island","tag-sara-smith","tag-the-district-of-columbia","tag-trump-administration","tag-vermont","tag-washington","tag-wisconsin"],"authors":[{"term_id":8,"user_id":341,"is_guest":0,"slug":"chcasey","display_name":"Christopher H. 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Walworth","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2024\/06\/walworthdaniel-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Walworth","first_name":"Daniel R.","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/danielrwalworth.html","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/danielrwalworth.html\">Read Daniel's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}