OMB Federal Funding Freeze Spurs Widespread Confusion, State AGs’ Lawsuit
Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at ICLE, offered perspective in this Communications Daily story on the OMB federal funding freeze. Read the full article here.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted an administrative stay late Tuesday afternoon that temporarily blocked a White House OMB memo, which called for a freeze on most federal grants and loans, from going into effect. The Trump administration memo already faced an array of legal challenges, including a planned lawsuit from a coalition of Democratic attorneys general from New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Broadband officials and industry advocates raised questions about the memo’s constitutionality and the future of certain FCC programs, such as Lifeline. Others warned the freeze could have serious implications for NTIA’s BEAD program.