Trump FUNDING CUTS BLOCKED in Court as Admin BEGS for WAR FUNDING

The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued a binding decision blocking the Trump administration's attempt to freeze 'trillions of dollars' in funding previously approved by Congress. The court explicitly called the administration's actions 'arbitrary, capricious, and legally indefensible,' marking a significant legal defeat.

A federal appeals court just said no. Very clearly, unequivocally said no. In a major decision that just came out of the first circuit, a coalition of 23 states had challenged the Trump administration's attempt to freeze a great amount of funding. I think it's in the trillions of dollars. And the court just didn't push back. He called it arbitrary, capriccious, and legally indefensible and just totally shut it down.

The court's ruling affirmed that the President cannot unilaterally override funding decisions made by Congress, especially after the opportunity to veto legislation has passed. This upholds the constitutional authority of the legislative branch over federal appropriations.

You, Mr. President, cannot override what Congress has decided to do and you didn't veto. Yeah. It's too late, right? you you can't you can't do it anymore. He could have it. You're unhappy with something. You don't like it. Get Congress to change it, but you can't just sit there in an arbitrary and capriccious way and say, 'We're not going to fund these programs anymore.'

The administration's attempted cuts impacted essential programs such as child healthcare, after-school lunches, disaster relief (FEMA), and unemployment benefits. The administration tried to frame these cuts as a 'temporary pause' and gave agencies only 24 hours' notice, often without clear justification or adherence to the Administrative Procedures Act.

They affected child health care, child care programs, afterschool lunches for children... disaster relief, um unemployment benefits... This was like the second week of his presidency when he started issuing these orders... The memo was called temporary pause of agency grant loan and other financial assistance programs... they gave people 24 hours.

The court found the administration failed to comply with the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), which mandates that such decisions be reasoned, explained, and consider their consequences. The administration's lack of analysis for why programs like school lunches were deemed 'wasteful' or contrary to their agenda (e.g., DEI, gender ideology) was a key factor in the ruling.

There's what's called the APA, right? The administrative procedures act... it requires that decisions like this be reasoned, explained. The consequences need to be concern considered before doing it... How is a school lunch program or an afterschool supervision program of children whose parents work, how is that somehow contrary to this administration's agenda? I mean, that's part of the problem, right? We we don't know. There's no analysis of why it's...