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The Trump administration announced various executive orders and actions, including attempts to eliminate, pause and limit grant funding that impacted multiple sectors, including education, healthcare, and social services. In the face of [...]

Trump Administration’s Efforts to Cut Funding to Entities Providing Gender Affirming Care Remain Blocked On February 28, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King issued a preliminary injunction in State of Washington [...]

Feldesman partner Phillip Escoriaza will bring his deep experience in federal grants to the upcoming workshop, “Understanding Rights and Responsibilities Under New Rules & Heightened Scrutiny,” on March 4, 2025, in Providence, [...]

Feldesman partner Mindy Pava will discuss key federal funding challenges for research institutions during the webinar "Leveraging Research Administration Expertise to Navigate Funding Challenges", hosted by Kuali on March 6, 2025, at [...]

As readers may be aware, two Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DEI”)-related Executive Orders impacting federal contractors and grantees have been challenged in the Federal District Court for the District of Maryland in [...]

Yesterday, the Executive Order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders” may have upended a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), commonly known as [...]

This week, two federal courts issued temporary restraining orders related to two of the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders impacting gender affirming care, Executive Order 14168 (“Defending Women…”) and Executive Order 14187 (“Protecting [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will present two general sessions, including the Keynote Session, at the 2025 Silver State Grant Conference in Reno, Nevada on February 13 - 14, 2025. This event [...]

The new second term Trump Administration, barely a month old, has stirred controversy through a lightning-fast review of federal spending, in some cases attempting to freeze trillions of dollars in already-appropriated federal [...]

This article was updated on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 10:50 a.m. CAP Purports to Apply to All Current and Future NIH Grants The Trump Administration’s recent efforts to apply stricter controls [...]