WASHINGTON — 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 ...

A federal judge declined to direct the Trump administration to reinstate funding for refugee resettlement programs after Catholic bishops challenged the freeze, but he signaled he might do so in the future.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said the State Department had failed to pay $13 million in unpaid reimbursements from November 2024, with additional costs rising since the resettlement program was suspended on Jan.

Catholic bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s largest private resettlement program.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Tuesday sued to challenge the Trump administration’s moves to block funding for refugee resettlement programs. Immigration groups

A federal judge said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had failed to show it would be irreparably harmed by a delay in receiving refugee funding.