Trump Urges Appeals Court to Lift Injunction on Spending Freeze – Bloomberg Law
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The Trump administration made an emergency request to a federal appeals court Monday to unblock his plan to freeze trillions of government dollars in loans, grants and other payments.
President Donald Trump asked for the lower court injunction halting his spending freeze plan to be stayed while he appeals the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, he said in an emergency motion. The injunction poses problems with the separation of powers since the directive to pause funding from government activities that conflict with the President’s priorities is “plainly lawful,” the US Department of Justice …