Anonymous ID: 9f3bcc March 19, 2025, 7:50 a.m. No.22787736   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7741 >>7802 >>7873

Another incoming reversal by a judge.

 

Trump Freezes $175M of Funds to Penn Over Trans Women

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/trump-university-pennsylvania/2025/03/19/id/1203477/

Wednesday, 19 March 2025 10:30 AM EDT

 

The Trump administration is withholding $175 million in federal funding from the University of Pennsylvania for allowing trans women to compete in women's sports, Newsweek reports.

 

“Promises made, promises kept,” wrote Trump's White House communications team on X.

 

The funds are discretionary money from the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

A senior official in the administration said this is “just a taste” of further monetary action against Penn over its policies.

 

The university is “still at risk of losing all its federal funding” due to the Title IX investigation into Penn allowing trans swimmer Lia Thomas to compete on the women's team and use facilities for women athletes, such as the locker room, the official said.

 

During his campaign, President Trump pledged to stop trans women from competing in women's sports.

 

True to that promise, on Feb. 5, Trump signed an executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports.”

 

“In recent years, many educational institutions and athletic associations have allowed men to compete in women's sports,” the order reads.

 

“This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports.”

 

As legal backing, the order cited Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. The bill gives women the right to an equal opportunity to participate in sports at any educational institution that receives federal funding.

 

“Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy,” the order continues.

 

“It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women's sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”

 

Newsweek reached out to the University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Education but did not hear back.

Anonymous ID: 9f3bcc March 19, 2025, 8:07 a.m. No.22787831   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7873

…and another Obutma judge reversing POTUS.

Time for the military, it's the only way now for sure.

 

Obama Judge Chutkan Blocks EPA From Halting Climate Grants

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/partisan-activist-judge/2025/03/19/id/1203456/

Wednesday, 19 March 2025 08:05 AM EDT

 

A U.S. judge Tuesday temporarily blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from recovering grant funds issued as part of a $20 billion climate funding program that President Donald Trump's administration has moved to terminate.

 

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, appointed by Democrat former President Barack Obama and long a target of Trump's ire for being a partisan activist judge in deep-blue Washington, issued a temporary restraining order halting the EPA's termination of three environmental nonprofit groups' grant agreements and barring Citibank from dispersing grant funding held at the bank in their accounts.

 

Those grants were terminated as part of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's campaign to claw back money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress authorized in 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act during then President Joe Biden's tenure in 2022 to kick-start projects aimed at curbing pollution.

 

The EPA under Zeldin's watch has maintained the program did not align with the agency's priorities, and it cited concerns with potential fraud, waste, and abuse. The EPA has said the FBI and Justice Department are also investigating the program, including for potential fraud, waste and abuse.

 

But Chutkan said it appeared the EPA failed to take the legally required steps necessary to terminate $13.97 million of grants awarded to Climate United, Coalition for Green Capital and Power Forward Communities.

 

Chutkan said that while the EPA claimed it terminated them due to "substantial concerns" about fraud, waste, and abuse, it provided only "vague and unsubstantiated assertions" to back up those claims.

 

Absent a court order preserving the status quo as the litigation proceeds, Chutkan said those groups would face imminent harm if Citibank transferred money the groups use to pay employees, pay rent and fund projects out of those accounts.

 

"If Citibank transfers money out of these accounts, the funds will not be recoverable," wrote Chutkan, an appointee of former Democratic U.S. President Barack Obama.

 

Zeldin in a statement said he would not rest until the funds were returned to the U.S. Treasury, saying they were "riddled with self-dealing and wasteful spending."

 

Citigroup, Citibank's parent company, did not respond to a request for comment.

 

The decision was an initial victory for the nonprofits, who sued earlier this month over the EPA's termination of their grants and Citibank's withholding of the money.

 

Climate United CEO Beth Bafford in a statement called Tuesday's ruling "a strong step in the right direction," and said the organization would work in the coming weeks towards a long-term solution.