The White House has rescinded its ordered temporary pause on certain grants and loans disbursed by the federal government that was stayed until February 3, 2025, by U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan. This comes in the wake of a federal judge ready to consider a temporary restraining order filed by 22 mostly democratic-led states and the District of Columbia that would have further blocked the temporary pause. The temporary pause was supposed to freeze certain federal financial assistance programs so that federal agencies could determine whether any program activities were implicated by any of the recent Executive Orders issued by President Trump, including those related to “financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”
