California is judging to stop the federal financing of Trump freezing

Stir to respond to the Trump Administration Late Directive on Monday night to stop broadly, but not yet determined, discounts from federal cost programs, California employees and agencies offered two consecutive answers today:

1. We still don’t know what that means and;
2. It’s almost definitely illegal.

The prosecution outside Sacramento is General Prosecutor Rob Bont, who, together with 22 other general state lawyers, has announced a new case challenging the contested ordered Funding freezing And he asks the court to block him to take effect.

“This directive is unprecedented in scope and would be detrimental if applied,” said Bont in a statement.

In a two -page note, the President of the President of the Management and Budget Service ordered federal agencies to “temporarily pause” all the financial assistance that could be “involved” by any of the president’s previous enforcement orders. Ever since he took office just more than a week ago, President Trump has issued a storm of Edicts for the processing of federal policy and management.

The White House held a briefing in the press on Tuesday to emphasize that it is simply a temporary pause for costs and that individual financial assistance programs such as social security, Medicare, food brands, grants for rent would be is not influenced by the orderS

“The reason for this is to ensure that every penny coming out the door is not contrary to the executive orders and actions that this president has taken,” White House press secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters.

No one knows which specific programs will be affected and for how long.

On Tuesday, the administration sent a Subsequent note To all federal agencies with a list of more than 3 200 federal cost programs. Agency’s employees were asked to provide the White House budget details about each program and answer a series of questions, including whether the program could support undocumented immigrants, impose an “unjustified weight” on the study of internal energy, or to encourage “diversity, justice and involvement “efforts, abortion or” gender ideology “.

The programs listed include those who provide assistance for disasters, dwellings for low -income residents and agricultural workers, foreign assistance, monitoring of air and water pollution and early childhood.

Even senior civil servants are not sure how this will affect the Californians.

“We are currently reviewing Omb’s note and working with our federal counterparts to get clarity,” said HD Palmer, a spokesman for the State Ministry of Finance. “Although this is obviously a liquid situation, we remain confident in our ability to continue to serve the Californians.”

Many of the selected democratic employees in California insisted that the results of this order were more severe.

The recently selected US Senator Adam Schiff warned that the order “would have immediate and deeply destructive consequences for efforts to recover, financing law enforcement, access to health and more.”

The US Congressman Jared Huffman, whose area covers the coast north of San Francisco, has warned that “millions of students relying on Pell grants, federal student loans and federal work survey will have plans to engage in post -competition education and yes They continue their career, thrown into chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as chaos as a chaos as a chaos like a chaos as a chaos rinsing a wicked Financial assistance is ped. “

This had been contrary to the note of the US Department of Education, which repeated This federal aid for Title IV, which includes student loans and grants, is not part of this freezing.

Meanwhile, some countries report problems with access to Medicaid funds, the Public Health Insurance Program for low -income people, although freezing did not have to affect this program, According to The Washington PostS Some early childhood teachers funded through the Federal Chief Start and Federal Medical Researchers’ funded reported that they did not have access to their payments, According to The New York TimesS

This is a developing story, check for updates soon.

Mikhail Zinstarn is, Ada Echemman, Ana Iressan and Jeannan Kanaan, are that they are that they contribute to this story.