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Judge refused to lift court-ordered pause on a controversial funding freeze. Despite Trump administration’s insistence that the policy was no longer in effect, the court wasn’t convinced.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., maintained a court-ordered pause on the government spending freeze on Thursday despite insistent claims from the Trump administration that the controversial defunding program had been rendered dead letter. “In a sense, it doesn’t really matter,” an attorney for the Office of Management and Budget