Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which had filed a lawsuit with LGBTQ+ elder advocacy group SAGE and other organizations, called the memo rescission a win and issued a statement saying that the group was “proud of our courageous clients” for going to court to “stop the administration’s unlawful actions.”

“While we hope this will enable millions of people in communities across the country to breathe a sigh of relief, we condemn the Trump-Vance administration’s harmful and callous approach of unleashing chaos and harm on the American people,” Perryman said in a statement. “Our team will continue to bring swift legal actions to protect the American people and will use the legal process to ensure that federal funding is restored.”

SAGE and Democracy Forward issued a statement saying that the groups successfully challenged and reversed a “draconian” federal funding freeze. […]