The Trump administration got hit with a lawsuit last week accusing it of "unlawfully" tying federal housing grants for the homeless to places that comply with the president 's "partisan agenda," including immigration enforcement and civil rights matters for transgender and non-binary people.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy in Rhode Island granted a temporary restraining order to halt the allegedly illegal restrictions on federal housing funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development's "Continuum of Care (CoC) Builds" program, according to court records.

"The order ensures that providers and communities will not be barred from competing for lifesaving housing resources simply because they are located in jurisdictions that don't adopt the administration's id

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