The Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump ordered a temporary freeze of federal funding Monday, aiming to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering.” While that order has since been rescinded amid a legal challenge, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that efforts to “end the egregious waste of federal funding” will continue.
A largely nameless coalition of nonprofits sued to block the freeze and a federal judge temporarily blocked it Tuesday, before the administration changed its strategy.
Which nonprofits sued to block the freeze? While the full answer to that question remains murky, many of the groups behind the lawsuit are left-leaning and they chose a left-leaning law firm to represent them.
Democracy Forward
Democracy Forward, a left-leaning firm…