Judge AliKhan may extend block on Trump funding freeze [Video]

A judge in the nation’s capital will likely keep a temporary block on a Trump administration plan for a freeze on federal funding after lawyers for nonprofit groups said they’re still struggling to get promised grants and loans.U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan in Washington expressed concern about nonprofit groups at risk of shutting down, even after judges ordered a halt to funding freezes.President Donald Trump’s plan to halt federal grants and loans originally targeted a wide range of funding totaling potentially trillions of dollars. While the memo outlining it has since been rescinded, the Republican administration has said some kind of funding freeze is still planned as part of his blitz of executive orders.AliKhan temporarily blocked the sweeping freeze last week, and a second judge in Rhode Island also blocked any federal spending pause in a separate lawsuit filed by nearly two dozen Democratic states.In the Washington lawsuit, several …