Exhibit 841 · Court opinion
Memorandum Opinion, National Endowment for Democracy v. United States, No. 25-cv-648 (DLF), Doc. 46, 795 F. Supp. 3d 63
Taken as a whole, that evidence leaves little doubt as to the defendants’ motivations
Grants NED a preliminary injunction against withholding $95 million of its fiscal 2025 appropriation. Finds that the State Department's spending plan placed unobligated funds under review for alignment with Administration priorities, that the OMB director urged Congress to defund NED because of grantees' criticism of the President's allies, and that the stated reason (reserving funds for FY2026) was not plausible. Records that the withholding left 226 approved grants, 124 recommended grants and 53 core-institute projects unfunded, and that Congress appropriated $315,000,000 for FY2024 and FY2025 at the same level. A preliminary ruling on likely success, not a final judgment.
- Source
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge Dabney L. Friedrich)
- Date
- 11 August 2025
- Quoted from
- p. 7
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278101/gov.uscourts.dcd.278101.46.0.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit