{"id":192,"date":"2025-02-21T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:39:07","slug":"catholic-bishops-sue-trump-administration-demand-restart-of-refugee-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishops sue Trump administration; demand restart of refugee money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fine by me. I think they will have the funds restarted. Note who the refugees are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/feb\/18\/u-conference-catholic-bishops-sues-trump-administration-demand-restart\/?mkt_tok=NDI3LUxFUS0wNjYAAAGYvLtS6qJeXQ4SW1pG0x5CP8HRlKnSnbcXPlmzWDVK88hxF1mSZhKE-RbgHCv7Ot2QaWZM_7_uR5idFwNrjaiNE0zzKBHbSUO4xuEiJji9jA\">Refugees are those fleeing persecution from abroad. As part of America\u2019s humanitarian mission, Congress sets aside money to pay nongovernmental organizations to help the refugees gain footing once they\u2019re here. They\u2019re entitled to 90 days of assistance.The bishops say they\u2019ve been working with the feds on refugees dating back to World War II, saying it\u2019s a biblical mandate, found in the Gospel of Matthew\u2019s admonition (25:35-40) to feed the hungry and welcome the stranger. <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The bishops said they were giving assistance to some 6,700 refugees when President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/donald-trump\/\">Trump<\/a> shut off the government spigot with an executive order putting federal grants on hold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fine by me. I think they will have the funds restarted. Note who the refugees are. Refugees are those fleeing persecution from abroad. As part of America\u2019s humanitarian mission, Congress sets aside money to pay nongovernmental organizations to help the refugees gain footing once they\u2019re here. They\u2019re entitled to 90 days of assistance.The bishops say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}