from NYT
A coalition of state attorneys general plans to file suit on Tuesday afternoon to block an order from the White House budget office that would freeze all federal grant programs by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The move was announced by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday morning. Among the states joining the suit are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.
“My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration’s unconstitutional pause on federal funding,” the New York attorney general, Letitia James, wrote on social media on Tuesday. “We won’t sit idly by while this administration harms our families.”
The freeze order, a two-page memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” specifically citing “D.E.I., woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal.” The meaning of the directive was unclear and has plunged state agencies, city governments and nonprofit organizations into confusion...
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