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BumRushDaShow

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7. Looks like they were complaining about use of the Administrative Procedures Act to try to block the cuts
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 05:30 PM
9 hrs ago

where (per a link in the OP article going to another NBC article) that law was described pretty simply - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-losing-court-boring-reason-adminitrative-procedure-act-rcna191113

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Known in abbreviated form as the APA, the law allows judges to throw out federal agency actions that are "arbitrary and capricious" on various grounds, including failing to articulate why the agencies are changing policy.

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Obviously there was a draconian "policy change" that was "articulated", as vile as it was.

I would think they could potentially try again using the Impoundment Control Act as an argument (assuming there were line items in the appropriations for the Education Department, et al, that designated what the funds were supposed to be for).

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