Funding Freeze Finale

While the rescission of the recent “funding freeze” memo seems to end the present dispute, history teaches that the issues will return in new form, as was seen with the travel ban at the start of the first Trump Administration, vaccine mandates, and the efforts of the Biden Administration to forgive substantial amounts of student-loan observations. “Round Two” will doubtless feature a more focused assertion of executive power by the Trump Administration, and also more sophisticated challenges to that assertion – including the selection of substantive legal arguments and the identification of plaintiffs who have strong standing positions.