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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Trump Administration planned to begin a pause on federal grants and loans Monday before a federal judge temporarily blocked the freeze from going into effect.

U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action minutes before it would have gone into effect. A pause on grant and loans could impact hundreds of organizations across the country, including several in central Ohio.

Multiple organizations rely on federal funding to stay afloat and to help people in the community. Leaders of local nonprofits said at this point, any effects that could go through are still unclear.

Michael Corey is the executive director of the Human Service Chamber of Franklin County, which represents more than 200 health and human service nonprofits. Corey said he is working with these organizations to understand the depth of this decision.

“We’re looking at nonprofits not being able to provide services, a whole host of services, that are funded through federal grants, housing, healthcare, education in school, after school, so on and so forth,” Corey said.

He said this proposal is unprecedented and trying to put a dollar figure on a pause is impossible.

“We are very much experiencing something, just with the attempt to suspend federal grants universally, that no one’s dealt with before, and we’re all unsure of how this will transpire,” Corey said.

Another organization that relies on federal funding is the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. Mike Hochron with the Collective said that amid this uncertainty, he wants people to know that the group's work will not stop.

“It’s too early to know what the impacts of any of this stuff happening at the federal level is going to be. We’re hopeful that nothing will truly impact the work that we do and we’re going to keep doing the work we do with the resources that we have,” Hochron said.

Ohio Humanities is another nonprofit relying on federal money. Executive Director Rebecca Asmo said the organization awards grants to local museums and historical societies.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty and that uncertainty is definitely going to impact the cultural organizations that this community and this state and that Ohioans care so much about,” Asmo said.

Corey said this pause is something that every Ohioan – even those who don’t directly get federal assistance – will notice if the pause goes on long enough.

“Everyone would be affected by this directly or indirectly. You can’t sever the operation of a huge chunk of the economy and not feel the ripple effects of that,” he said.

Several states and nonprofits have already sued the Trump Administration over the federal grant pause, arguing this action is illegal.

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