California Atty. General Rob Bonta concluded a federal court on Friday with a coalition of more than 20 states to intervene and forced the Trump government again hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funds that are appropriated by the congress for the states.
In two separate legal applications, Bonta and 22 other attorney in general asserted the fact that the administration had ignored a previously temporary injunction, according to which it had to release the financing. They asked that this order should be enforced and that the court issues an additional injunction that continues to block the freezing and ensures the release of the funds during the litigation.
“The administration creates a widespread chaos and causes irreparable damage to our states and the American people,” said Bonta during a press conference in the afternoon. “By not fulfilling responsibility for the constitutional responsibility for the responsibility of the congress, the president does not fulfill the president of our democracy.”
The Trump government has contested misconduct and said it was acting in its authority.
The latest legal sparring continues a debate that has issued a memo since Trump's household office that was stopped on January 27 to comply with the financing for a number of federal programs when the new administration found that the financing with Trump's political agenda agreed.
The memo was provided by Democrats in the congress with immediate outrage, the legally existing federal budget and of the heads of state, which began to support the important services across the country with disorders of the financing of streams, such as the Medicaid's payout systems with the financing of crucial services control.
The White House has lifted its memo memo memo, and the administration claimed in court that the financing restrictions were not as widespread as the states argued and that the administration acted well in its authority regardless of this.
In an answer in court, the administration wrote that Trump and his office for management and budget “are clearly authorized to manage the agencies to fully implement the president's agenda, which corresponds to the underlying legal authorities of the individual agencies”.
That was what Trump had done with his executive commands and what omb had done with his memo since Withdrawn, the administration argued.
The Trump administration officers have also repeatedly fulfilled government complaints on specific disorders of financing and at the same time the government's efforts to reduce federal expenditure by the so-called state efficiency of the billionaire to reduce Elon Musk.
State officials said that the White House simply does not say the truth and that regardless of what it says publicly, it is illegally holding back the financing.
“A week ago, a Trump administration court instructed to remove 3 trillion dollars of federal funds, whereby the critical state funds were still blocked. The administration does not meet this court regulation, ”said Bonta.
Bonta said.
He said the funds were frozen in a number of programs, including healthcare, childcare and care; Education; Nutrition support programs for children and the elderly; Means for streets and bridge repairs; Funds that support the state workforce, reduce pollution and provide discounts and subsidies for cleaner, safer and more affordable houses; And programs for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution along the most important California corridors – including one between Los Angeles and the Imperial Valley.
This also included funds that were assigned by the congress as part of the law on inflation reduction and the law on infrastructure investments and jobs, he said.
“These are just a few examples of the programs of the people who, due to the illegal and unconstitutional attempt by the government to freeze funds, high and dry,” he said.
He described the persistent freezing of such means as “illegal and un -American”, which reflected an obvious disregard for the president's rule of law.
“In our country, when a court orders you, you have to obey something, no matter who you are, including the president,” said Bonta. “There are no aspects of the order not the right to close your ears, turn your back on the judge and pretend that it would not happen.”
Bonta said to ask the court to enforce its existing arrangement was “the best way to maintain compliance and achieve the money that should flow”, and he believed that the states would be successful.
He said that he was not “speculated” as to why freezing was not completely canceled according to the existing order, but said that the financing was “simply not fluent” – so the states had to defend themselves.
Reports on frozen federal financing have increased in the past few days, including California. For example, St. John's Community Health, a network of South California Community Clinics, who supply themselves with low or no costs, said this week that a federal subsidy for its transgender health program was terminated, which led to a loss of more than 740,000 US dollars .
The grant, which is expected to be more than 1.6 million US for over four years, under a third of the financing for the network program of the network.
In a message, the US centers indicated for the control and prevention of diseases that the health center as a subsidy recipient had to end the programs immediately in order to “convey the support or introduction of gender ideology with the scholarship”. Jim Mangia, President and Managing Director of St. John's Community Health, condemned the move as “illegal and unconstitutional”.
St. Johns later reported that it was unable to reduce an additional 1 million US dollar in federal financing through the administration of drug abuse and mental health services, which were intended to support psychiatric services for transgender and non -bobage people. The Healthcare Network stated that the $ 1 million was the amount of $ 4 million.
The Republicans in the Congress have generally supported Trump's efforts, which indicates that they correspond to the priorities of the American people. They also confirmed Russ VOUGHT – an architect of project 2025 and Trump's budget approach – this week as the budget director of the White House.
“Russ is a conservative force against the radical left and the Washington establishment. With his help, we will restore our budget budgets and reduce the regulatory state, ”said House speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, said Trump and Republicans in the congress were aligned, including in the household.
On Friday, he wrote in a post on X about the federal budget that the “American people President Trump has its most important priorities: to secure the border, to rebuild our defense and unleash American energy. The time to act is now and the Republicans of the Senate are ready to roll. “
Democrats in the Congress, which condemned the government's financing movements, continued to do so on Friday.
Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee, said on Friday that the administration's hundreds of billions would still hold back from the administration.
“The curved freezing of the president causes people in every part of the country real pain – in red states and blue states and everywhere in between – and it has to end now,” she said.