The motion states that the Trump administration has failed to fully comply with the court’s order.
A coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia filed an emergency motion on Friday for the enforcement of a restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s funding freeze.
Rhode Island U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell issued a temporary restraining order on Jan. 31 to prevent the Trump administration from freezing federal financial assistance. But the attorneys general said that access to federal funds have remained blocked despite the order.
The attorneys general said that they have observed “an ever-changing kaleidoscope of federal financial assistance that has been suspended, deleted, in transit, under review, and more since entry of the order.”
“These conditions persist today,” they stated in the motion. “And, while it is imaginable that a certain amount of machinery would need to be re-tooled in order to undo the breadth of the federal funding freeze, there is no world in which these scattershot outages, which as of this writing impact billions of dollars in federal funding across the plaintiff states, can constitute compliance with this court’s order.”
The motion states that the Trump administration has failed to fully comply with