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A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on Thursday blocking the Trump administration from freezing federal funding without going through Congress, offering a scathing critique of what he said was the White House's attempt to disrupt the separation of powers.

When President Donald Trump attempted to unilaterally freeze billions in federal funding to states, local governments, and nonprofits during his first week in office, the president unlawfully attempted to undermine the balance of power that has defined American governance, U.S. District Judge John McConnell said.

"The interaction of the three co-equal branches of government is an intricate, delicate, and sophisticated balance—but it is crucial to our form of constitutional governance. Here, the Executive put itself above Congress," he wrote

The order prohibits the Trump administration from "reissuing, adopting, implementing, giving effect to, or reinstating under a different name" a short-lived directive issued by the Office of Management and Budget that froze billions in funds.

McConnell, an Obama appointee, noted that his order is "not limiting the Executive's discretion or micromanaging the administration of federal funds" but rather reiterating the limit of Trump's power.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

With more than 100 federal lawsuits filed since the inauguration, President Donald Trump and his administration have effectively been sued three times for every business day he has occupied the Oval Office.

Approximately 30 of the 100 lawsuits relate to Trump's immigration policies, while more than 20 of the cases directly challenge the actions of Musk's DOGE.

With Trump signing more than 75 executive orders since taking office, the unprecedented flood of litigation has yielded mixed results in blocking the president's unilateral efforts to reshape the federal government.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

President Donald Trump has no public events on his schedule, but according to the White House, he will sign executive orders at 2 p.m. ET. It's unclear what he will be signing, though he is expected to take the extraordinary step this week of directing his secretary of education to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education by executive order, ABC News reports.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is meeting with United Kingdom Defense Secretary John Healey and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is delivering remarks at a U.S. hostage and wrongful detainee flag raising ceremony at the State Department.

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans are teeing up a vote to censure Democrat Al Green after his disruptions during Trump's Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress.

The hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" canceled a planned 2026 run at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, citing the firing of the theater's board and chairman and subsequent takeover by President Donald Trump.

"Politics have never affected the presentation of thousands of shows and the display of extraordinary visual arts," "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller said in a statement.

"However, in recent weeks we have sadly seen decades of Kennedy Center neutrality be destroyed. The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in the face of everything this national cultural center represents."

The show previously ran at the Kennedy Center twice — first in 2018, during Trump's first administration, and again in 2022. The upcoming showing would've been the third such run at the Washington, D.C., theater, but Seller said that the erosion of the theater's independence caused the show to reassess its plans.

"We are not acting against [Trump's] administration, but against the partisan policies of the Kennedy Center as a result of his recent takeover," Seller said.