My assumption is that it's within the administration's rights to cancel the funding, but it's like that scene in The Office where Michael tries to "declare bankruptcy" by just saying the words out loud.

The actual executive order is laughably vague, it couldn't be less serious if it was written in crayon. And their additional guidance was not much better:

>Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance? A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President’s Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.

This is hilariously daft. The administration is not aware that the "green new deal" included things like highway funding and buying school buses. Does DEI include reduced lunch programs? If you are currently getting a grant to upgrade metering in your city, are you supposed to stop or not? It's a drunk stepdad's shopping list.

I suspect the court is actually going to make the administration do a bit of reading and have to identify each grant that they are going to cut.