City Comptroller Brad Lander and other city officials urged Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday to either directly sue or join other legal actions to protect the $11.8 billion in federal funding that the city could lose due to President Trump’s newly enacted federal funding freeze.
Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced on Monday night that it would pause all federal grant and loan payments as it conducts a “review” of spending to ensure they align with the torrent of executive orders he issued last week. His actions touched several areas, such as dismantling federal diversity and inclusion programs, executing mass deportations of undocumented migrants, and rolling back climate change-fighting policies.
