Mary Nelson (@marynelson8@mstdn.social)

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"States win a legal injunction against President Trump, pausing library funding cuts"

"A federal judge has halted President Trump's attempt to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services – the agency which provides federal funding to libraries and museums across the country."

#USpol #USpolitics #TrumpAdministration #Libraries #Museums

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388902/library-funding-cuts-trump-injunction

On March 14, Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination "to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law," of seven government entities, including the IMLS. In response, attorneys general from 21 states sued the president to stop him from dismantling three of those agencies - the IMLS, the Minority Business Development Agency and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

District court Judge John J. McConnell Jr., who was nominated to the court by President Obama in 2011, issued an injunction on the EO Tuesday, stating that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

"It also disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government; specifically, it ignores the unshakable principles that Congress makes the law and appropriates funds, and the Executive implements the law Congress enacted and spends the funds Congress appropriated," McConnell wrote.

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