Despite recent court rulings calling for an end to the Trump administration's sweeping pause on federal grants, numerous recipients are not getting their promised cash from the government.

The administration is still not forking over money for congressionally funded programs ranging from electric vehicle charging to abandoned mine cleanup to wildfire mitigation.

Both recipients of and advocates for these funding programs say the freeze will have significant impacts, delaying — or even fully obstructing — many infrastructure projects.

“Even the pause is going to harm the implementation of these programs, because there are contractors out there who have salaries to pay and deadlines to meet and rent to pay,” said Tony Mendoza, a senior attorney at the Sierra Club.

He added that the pause could even “kill some of these projects,” whether or not the money would eventually come through.

Late last month, the White House directed federal agencies to pause “all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.”

Amid a legal challenge from 22 states, the pause was blocked in court days later.

Nevertheless, funding for a wide range of congressionally directed programs appeared to still be frozen this week.

Maren Mahoney, director of the Arizona Office of Resiliency, told The Hill on Thursday that Arizona can no longer access money from a $156 million grant that would go toward installing local solar projects, as well as additional grants from the Environmental........

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