US Catholic bishops drag Trump to court over

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for halting funding for the refugee resettlement program.

In the lawsuit, the USCCB sought to prevent Trump from stopping funding for various government programs and agencies.

The case pertains to the Refugee Act of 1980, under which the USCCB collaborated with the US government to resettle over 930,000 refugees.

Fox News quoted the lawsuit as saying: “For decades, the US government has chosen to admit refugees and outsourced its statutory responsibility to provide those refugees with resettlement assistance to non-profit organizations like USCCB.

“But now, after refugees have arrived and been placed in USCCB’s care, the government is attempting to pull the rug out from under USCCB’s programs by halting funding.”

The State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration had suspended the program immediately after Trump took office.

However, the USCCB argued that the suspension letter clearly stated that the department would reimburse the organization for its work up to January 24.

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