A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Trump administration to halt all remnants of the spending freeze that officials ordered last week and then rolled back.
U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary restraining order Monday after expressing concern that the blanket freeze on federal spending may be lingering at some agencies despite two court orders to pause it during ongoing lawsuits.
AliKhan acted after some nonprofits reported that they continued to be hampered by the freeze and still couldn’t access promised funding, an obstacle she said appeared to be a direct result of a freeze the Office of Management and Budget in Trump’s White House ordered last week, but officially rescinded three days later.
Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the FBI, said the agency is in “utter disarray”...
