Headline: Des Moines Register, 2/11/2025
Given the Rhode Island federal judge's action Monday requiring payments to restart, Grassley said he didn’t think that farmers in Iowa and elsewhere who receive funds via federal programs “have anything to worry about.”
Trump has halted millions of dollars in payments pledged in programs created under former President Joe Biden, including $11 million owed to farmers in Iowa and 11 other Midwestern states for conservation practices they adopted last year as part of a five-year, $95 million climate smart agriculture initiative.
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New York Times, 2/10/2025
Mattathias Schwartz writes:
The ruling by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island federal court ordered administration officials to comply with what the judge called “the plain text” of a ruling he issued on Jan. 29.
That order, he wrote, was “clear and unambiguous, and there are no impediments to the Defendants’ compliance.”
Shortly after Monday’s ruling, Trump administration lawyers appealed the judge’s initial order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, asking the appellate court to pause Judge McConnell’s order to keep federal funds flowing while their case was being considered. The White House responded with more defiance.
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