FEMA "manual review" covertly withholds grants after the injunction

Date

Apr 4, 2025

Kind

Appropriations

Status

Judicially found non-compliant

Source

riag.ri.gov ↗

Court or forum

New York v. Trump, D.R.I., Judge McConnell

What happened

Over 200 FEMA grants across 30+ programs in at least 19 states remained frozen; McConnell found the evidence "strongly suggests FEMA is implementing this manual review process based, covertly," on the sanctuary-jurisdictions order, and ordered it halted within 48 hours.

Publisher

RI Attorney General