All three cited sources are genuine, reachable, and document exactly the rated outcome: Trump forcefully pursued defunding sanctuary cities via executive action, but federal courts repeatedly blocked the actual cutoff of grants, so the promised outcome was not achieved — a textbook ATTEMPTED (effort made, failed within the normal process). CBS News (verbatim quote confirmed): "The court rulings, along with several other lawsuits that remain pending, have stalled the administration's funding cuts." Documents Judge Orrick barring the administration from withholding/conditioning federal funds (expanded to 30+ jurisdictions) plus a separate ruling that conditioning FEMA grants is unconstitutional. ABC News (verbatim quote confirmed, after 301 redirect to abcnews.com): the 15-page Orrick order "grants a preliminary injunction in the administration's effort to withhold funds and expands the number of cities that federal funds can't be withheld from due to their 'sanctuary' status for undocumented immigrants" — hundreds of millions in HUD grants. NPR (article confirmed at the exact cited URL via search after repeated fetch timeouts; corroborated by NBC, CNN, CBS, OPB): Judge Orrick extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting or conditioning funds for 34 cities/counties including Los Angeles and Chicago, calling the executive orders an unconstitutional "coercive threat." Note: the rating's NPR quote ("Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding sanctuary cities") is the URL slug, not the verbatim headline ("Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding over 'sanctuary' policies") — a cosmetic discrepancy that accurately reflects the article's content and does not constitute fabrication. The ATTEMPTED outcome does not overstate the evidence — the sources show the funding cuts were stalled/blocked and no broad defunding took effect. Two of three quotes are verbatim-confirmed; the third is a faithful slug-derived paraphrase fully corroborated across outlets. Upheld.