A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday blocked the Trump administration's attempt to freeze funding on distributions to federal aid programs. The post ‘Few things more disingenuous’: Judge slams Trump administration for ‘thinly veiled attempt’ to avoid court over federal funding freeze first appeared on Law & Crime.

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan said some nonprofits continued to be hampered by the freeze and still couldn’t access promised funding.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop its freeze on federal assistance, allowing aid to continue flowing to nonprofit organizations and other entities after the funding was targeted by the White House budget office last week.

A U.S. judge on Monday extended a pause on the Trump administration's plan to freeze federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, saying it may have "run roughshod" over Congress's constitutional authority over government spending.

Some forms of federal aid spending still appear to be frozen, a federal judge in Washington said Monday, despite a court order blocking the Trump administration's funding pause and the Office of Management and Budget's move last week to rescind its own memo announcing the policy.