Feb. 7 A group of states that sued Trump over last week’s sweeping federal grant freeze alleged in a filing they “continue to be denied access to federal funds” even though a judge put the freeze on hold, claiming “scattershot outages” have cut them off from accessing several Biden-era grant programs.

If the theme of the first week of the Elon Musk and Donald Trump autocoup was “Why isn’t anyone doing anything to stop this?” then the theme of this past week was “ Go lawyers .” The Trump administration has been hit with over 40 lawsuits challenging everything from DOGE’s takeover of the Treasury to the “Fork in the Road” fake buyout scheme for federal employees.