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A federal judge in Rhode Island has found the Trump administration has continued to improperly freeze federal funds.

Despite a temporary restraining order issued late last month,

blocking its efforts to freeze payments for grants and other federal programs.

Judge John McConnell, Jr., issuing an order today in response to a lawsuit brought by 22 states

and the District of Columbia.

The judge ordered the administration to immediately restore frozen funding and immediately

end any federal funding pause. It affects any of the 22 states that filed suit. That of the

agency that protects federal whistleblowers from retaliation says he was illegally fired by President

Trump on Friday. MPR. Stephen Fowler reports on a lawsuit filed today by special counsel Hampton

Dellinger. Delinger was confirmed by the Senate last year to serve a five-year term. Federal law says

the president can only fire the special counsel for, quote, inefficiency, neglect of duty, or

malfeasance in office. But Hampton Delinger's lawsuit says none of those reasons were cited in a one-sentence email from Trump's personnel director that said simply his position was terminated effective immediately.

His is among a string of dismissals appearing to flout laws that protect executive branch officials from politically motivated firings.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

The U.S. Senate is expected to move ahead with its efforts to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to be the next

Director of National Intelligence.

NPR's Kristen Wright reports Gabbard is one of President Trump's most divisive cabinet nominees.

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