The 23 state attorneys general involved in the suit will now draft a temporary restraining order, and the Trump administration will need to respond.
The resolution was defeated 21-14 after a trio of Senate Democrats denounced the culture of law-breaking and dehumanization they attributed to Trump.
A Trump administration order to pause federal spending on Tuesday led to bureaucratic bedlam in Rhode Island and across the country as state government officials tried to assess the local impact of suddenly turning off federal spigots.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island House passed a resolution congratulating President Donald Trump on his inauguration. The resolution is usually passed every four years congratulating the president and vice president. It outlined key components including border security, energy independence, and America First foreign policy.
President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to pardon defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
This lawsuit hopes to end with a nationwide restraining order making sure that money continues flowing into states for needed services like policing.
The “chaos isn’t over,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) posted on the social media site X on Wednesday. “While Trump reverses his position on this freeze every ten minutes … domestic violence shelters, firefighters, and Community Health Centers aren’t sure if they can keep their doors open.”
PEPFAR was spearheaded by President G W Bush and endorsed by Dr Anthony Fauci to curb the Aids epidemic globally. The program appeared to fall under the Trump administration’s government funding freeze.
U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan blocked the Trump administration from implementing it for now. A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal aid programs, ruling that the courts need more time to consider the potentially far-reaching ramifications of his order.
The massive, multinational corporation announced Monday that it would bend to an executive order, signed by Trump on his first day back in office, renaming the highest peak in the United States “Mount McKinley” and branding the ocean basin the “Gulf of America.”
The group of Democratic attorneys general argued that freezing spending authorized by Congress to conduct an ideological review is unconstitutional.
NORTH KINGSTOWN − The fate of $600 million in federal funding for Rhode Island highway projects, including the westbound Washington Bridge, is up in the air as President Donald Trump looks to halt spending on climate policies enacted by his predecessor Joe Biden.