Refugee Funding Suspension

The Refugee Funding Suspension is an action by Trump 2.0 to suspend federal funding to USRAP nonprofit partners for their work processing refugee applications abroad and providing services to refugees domestically.

USRAP nonprofit partners, including Plaintiff resettlement agencies, learned of the Refugee Funding Suspension on January 24, when PRM issued mass "Suspension Notices" directing resettlement agencies to immediately stop work, cancel obligations, and incur no new costs. Dkt. No. 31-3.

In a lawsuit in federal court in Seattle, plaintiffs allege that, along with these Suspension Notices, the Refugee Funding Suspension also includes a sub silentio suspension, enacted without notice, of contractual reimbursements owed to USRAP partner nonprofits for work already performed under cooperative agreements.