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Judge says Trump can't withhold money from Blue states [1]
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Date: 2025-01-31
The New York Times is reporting that a judge in Rhode Island has required the Trump administration to continue to pay appropriated money to the 22 states that joined in the law suit. Mostly these were blue states, except for some swing states that went for Trump. Interestingly enough, I didn’t see Pennsylvania in the list of states. www.nytimes.com/...At any rate, it looks like the red states can get the full “benefit” of Trump’s policies, while the blue and purple states may be protected from some of them. The basis of the judge’s order was a 1975 unanimous Supreme Court decision holding that the president had no authority to impound appropriated funds. Of course, as the NYT noted, the current Supreme Court has shown a willingness to overturn its own precedent.
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