US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the terminations of hundreds of humanities grants last year by the Trump administration ’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) were unconstitutional and involved “blatant” discrimination. In April last