Judge won’t immediately block Trump administration’s abrupt halt to Catholic refugee funding

A federal judge on Thursday refused to immediately block the Trump administration’s abrupt halt to funding of the nation’s largest private refugee resettlement program in a setback to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Judge Trevor McFadden denied the bishops’ request for a temporary restraining order that would have restored the funding, but called his ruling “very tentative.”

McFadden also ordered the two sides to have a mediation session with a federal magistrate judge next week.

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