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Trump on Order to Unfreeze Funds: 'We Have to Find Fraud'
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February 10, 2025
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0:18Now PlayingThe Trump administration must immediately unfreeze all $3 trillion in federal funds, a judge ruled Monday, finding it violated his temporary restraining order by keeping some of the dollars paused.
Blue state attorneys general showed evidence that the administration is still refusing to let funds flow, despite the federal judge’s Jan. 31 order to pause the administration’s plan. The Trump administration must ask McConnell for permission to pause funds in specific cases, the judge said.
“The Defendants now plea that they are just trying to root out fraud,” Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island wrote Monday. “But the freezes in effect now were a result of the broad categorical order, not a specific finding of possible fraud.”
The “broad categorical and sweeping” funding freeze is likely unconstitutional and is irreparably harming “a vast portion of this country,” McConnell wrote. “Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect,” he said, quoting the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Maness v. Meyers.
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