BREAKING: Federal Funding for Trans Health Care Reinstated
Following Motion for Enforcement, Community Health Care Receives Funds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, February 10 2025
Contact: Cabot Petoia, clpetoia@gmail.com, 828-899-9239

Los Angeles – St. John’s Community Health – a network of federally qualified health centers providing free and low cost health care in Southern California – reports that today, over a week after numerous of their federal funding sources for providing services to the trans community were frozen or cut off, they have received notice that federal funds allocated through the CDC and SAMHSA, are being released.

St. John’s Community Health is able to once again access their federal funding because the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island today granted a motion for enforcement of the court’s prior order that prohibited the Trump Administration from implementing its freeze of up to $3 trillion in federal funding. The Court’s move today compels the Trump administration to release all federal funding still being withheld.

In the motion to enforce, Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., ruled that the White House has broken the law and could face penalties as a result of their refusal to abide by the injunction issued on January 30 to lift the freeze on federal funding to nonprofit organizations. St. John’s Community Health submitted a declaration through the California Attorney General’s office as proof that the Trump administration had defied the initial court injunction and eliminated their funding in defiance of the court order on January 30.

“Today’s legal enforcement is a reminder that health care providers should never bend to the whims of the Trump administration and fall in line – we must continue to challenge and resist all attempts to harm marginalized communities, no matter the political risk,” said Jim Mangia, president and CEO of St. John’s Community Health. “We will celebrate this victory by continuing to provide the highest quality of care to our patients, who deserve nothing less.”