US EditionFederal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states
Judge Mary McElroy ruled the administration violated Congress’s funding decisions by withholding $3.6 billion in disaster mitigation grants from states refusing immigration cooperation.
- U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy blocked the administration's reallocation of federal Homeland Security funding and ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore allocations to the plaintiff states.
- The Trump administration tied grant eligibility to states' cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, cutting Homeland Security Grant Program funds as part of seeking savings for a summer spending bill earlier this year.
- More than $233 million was cut from Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, including $84 million held up for the Grays Harbor County levee project.
- A judge warned that withholding funds supporting counterterrorism programs risks emergency response, citing the Brown University attack and calling such funding hostage-taking unlawful, U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy wrote.
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Trump’s Power Play Backfires: Federal Judge Restores Funding to Blue States
President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to weaponize federal funding as leverage in his immigration policy war hit a brick wall this week when a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the administration cannot strip more than $233 million in Homeland Security and disaster grants from Democratic-led states merely because they refuse to cooperate with his hardline immigration enforcement directives. This ruling is hardly a technicality. It’s a t…
The Times of Northwest Indiana
Judge halts 'sanctuary' cuts to FEMA funding
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to reallocate federal national security funds to states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration laws. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s Monday ruling consolidated a victory for the coalition of 12 attorney generals who sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal subsidies due to their “sanctu…
Associated Press News
Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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