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If the Trump administration again tries to impound funds, a suit can be brought by anyone who loses funding that is supposed to be provided by a federal statute,
constitutional scholar and dean of UC Berkeley Law School Erwin Chemerinsky told Newsweek on Thursday
The only way Trump can proceed with impoundment is if the [Impoundment Control Act] is unconstitutional,
former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance wrote on Thursday.jpg)
The President's [Executive Orders] on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented,
White House Press Secretary Leavitt subsequently posted to X. Leavitt was likely referring to the several orders signed by Trump since taking office intended to stop federal funds from being used in ways that contradict the administration's aimsThe communication seems to be kind of contradictory, depending on what institute it’s coming from,,
said Lara
We were anticipating changes, and that it would be a new relationship we would have to manage but I don’t think anyone expected this firehose,
said Alexander Jordan Lara, a postbaccalaureate fellow at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and a member of the union’s bargaining committeeWe have a right to negotiate over how those changes affect our members, and how they are impacting our members,
Levinstein said in an interviewWe cannot do our research effectively, and this is putting into question delaying research on cancer and diabetes, on drug addiction, on heart disease,
Levinstein told the Guardian.jpg)
A fork in the road.”
When Musk fired 80% of Twitter’s employees on taking over the firm in 2022, he used the same language that headed this week’s memo to federal employeesWhile we hope this will enable millions of people in communities across the country to breathe a sigh of relief, we condemn the Trump-Vance administration’s harmful and callous approach of unleashing chaos and harm on the American people,
said Skye Perryman, the chief executive of Democracy Forward, one of the groups that filed the legal action
Kinda runs counter to whole reason Trump’s guys are taking a blow torch to federal workers up and down agency organizational charts, doesn’t it?”
the aideIt’s understandable given the first week that career officials are going to be cautious about doing something that isn’t aligned with the administration’s intent,
one senior GOP congressional aide who had been in constant conversations with agency officials, told CNNWe were in the dark, like everyone else,
a Republican senator told CNN, speaking of the freeze on the condition of anonymity to avoid alienating the West WingThis action should effectively end the court case and allow the government to focus on enforcing the president’s orders on controlling federal spending,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said WednesdayWe are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse,
Trump said during his first bill-signing ceremony on an unrelated immigration law
I can’t help it if left-wing media outlets published a fake news story that caused confusion,
Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on TuesdayThose were our reference points to the universe of what was affected by the memo,
one senior career agency management official saidOnly a couple trillion or so off, I guess
one official told CNN, referencing the actual number – $6.75 trillion – published by the US governmentWe haven’t won this fight, don’t get me wrong, but see that we can have some real impact,
he saidI don't think that those programs are safe,
he said of agricultural programs geared at racial equity
We’re really, really, really counting on grant funds coming both from the state and federal government,
said John C. Young, a former water executive who was appointed to oversee the city’s water and sewer department