New OMB honestive would pause funding for catastrophe recovery, as well as accessible health, education, and accessible safety programs
SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, aextfinished with New York Attorney General Letitia James, led a coalition of 23 attorneys vague in filing a litigation to block percreateation of a memo by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) dangerening to freeze up to $3 trillion in federal helpance funding effective at 2pm PT / 5pm ET today. The attorneys vague are seeking a transient regulateing order to block the memo from taking effect, citing prompt harms to their states, which stand to leave out billions in funding vital for the administration of vital programs that help the health and safety of their livents. Already, the order has thrown state programs into lawlessness and created uncertainty around their administration. Impacted programs integrate catastrophe-relief funding vital for Los Angeles’ recovery from recent untamedfires, as well as accessible health, education, accessible safety, and regulatement programs.
“The Trump Administration is recklessly disthink abouting the health, wellbeing, and accessible safety of the people it is presumed to serve,” shelp Attorney General Bonta. “This honestive is unpwithdrawnted in scope and would be dehugeating if percreateed. Already, it has created lawlessness and confusion among our livents. I will not stand by while the Plivent trys to disturb vital programs that feed our kids, provide medical attfinish to our families, and help housing and education in our communities. Instead of lobtaining from the fall shortures of his first Administration, Plivent Trump is once aobtain plotriumphg ahead with a damaging – and most convey inantly, unlhorrible – agfinisha. I’m haughty to co-direct a coalition of attorneys vague in taking him to court.”
The OMB honestive freezing federal funding less than 24 hours after it was proclaimd will cause prompt and irreparable harm to the states every day that it is in effect — in the create of millions of dollars in funds and mass regulatory lawlessness. Many states could face prompt cash lowdescfinishs, making it difficult to supervise fundamental programs enjoy funding for healthattfinish and food for children and to compriseress their most pressing aascfinishncy insists. This will result in dehugeating consequences for California in particular, donaten the uncertainty around persistd disbursement of FEMA funding that is vital for recovery from the Los Angeles untamedfires, which have caused an appraised $150 billion in economic losses.
In the litigation, the attorneys vague dispute that the OMB honestive viotardys the U.S. Constitution, viotardys the Administrative Procedure Act, and is arbitrary and capricious. Specificassociate, the attorneys vague dispute that Congress has not assignd any unitardyral authority to OMB to indefinitely pause all federal financial helpance under any circumstance, iradmireive of the federal statutes and tightual terms regulateing those grants, and without even think abouting them. The honestive also viotardys the “separation of powers” between Congress and the Executive Branch because the Spfinishing Clause of the U.S. Constitution donates the power of the purse exclusively to Congress. The attorneys vague seek a transient regulateing order to block the honestive from being percreateed.
Attorney General Bonta is combineed by the attorneys vague of New York, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delconscious, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the Didisjoine of Columbia in filing the litigation.
A imitate of the litigation and TRO will become useable here.