Courts Halt Clawback

The most likely path is that California agriculture groups win near-term injunctive relief, helped by the GAO's Sept. 29 finding that the clawback is unlawful. Courts are likely to treat already-appropriated Inflation Reduction Act conservation funds as difficult for the executive branch to rescind unilaterally.

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