Trump has federal dollars for PA. Quoted in the lawsuit, says Shapiro

On Monday, two weeks, when Shapiro Trump had sued for financing freezing, gave around 2.1 billion US dollars that were held back by President Donald Trump from Pennsylvania.

“Every dollar that we identified when submitting our lawsuit is currently not frozen and accessible to the state authorities of Pennsylvania,” Shapiro told reporters at a press conference on Monday.

The reversal of the White House “came up with the Trump administration due to our lawsuit and our continued pressure and commitment, in which we demanded the administration, comply with the current legal dispositions,” said Shapiro.

This included Shapiro's participation last week in Trump's meeting with a cross -party governor he had chosen, in which Shapiro said he continued to press senior officials from the White House.

“I asked her to follow the law and honor her agreements with Pennsylvania,” said Shapiro. “As a result of this direct commitment in the past week, our financing is not frozen and they follow the law.”

On February 13, Shapiro submitted a lawsuit, shortly after Trump instructed widespread federal financing – often on the recommendation of the billionaire campaign trailer Elon Musk.

In the case of Pennsylvania, Trump has held 1.2 billion US dollars on federal grants together with further reimbursements of 900 million US dollars, which according to Shapiro's suit due to vague guidelines from the White House indefinitely.

The blocked funds included a number of common state projects, mainly environmental programs, such as:

Work on some projects had to be stopped as soon as the financing was stopped, Shapiro said, but will now be resumed.

Trump has claimed that laws that are the ability of the President to confiscate funds are unconstitutional and that he has a broad authority to stop the dollar flow. Shapiro's lawsuit asked Trump's ability to effectively stop programs that were inscribed by the congress into the law, and argued that this was a fundamental violation of the constitutional separation of powers.

In several similar suits in the entire district, the federal judges generally decided against the president, and some have accused the White House of modesting court resolutions by continuing to have funds.