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Trump Admin Sued over Holding over $1B for Sanctuary Cities and States
The coalition contends the Trump administration's grant conditions violate constitutional limits and risk cutting $15 million in Oregon VOCA funding needed by 146 victim service providers in 2025.
- Attorney General Dan Rayfield is leading a coalition of 21 state attorneys general in suing the Trump administration over alleged illegal conditions on Victims of Crime Act grants.
- Despite VOCA being enacted in 1984, the Trump administration is conditioning funding on states assisting with federal immigration enforcement, according to Oregon AG Rayfield.
- According to Rayfield’s office, 146 Oregon organizations rely on VOCA grants, which face a potential $15 million loss in 2025, threatening services like domestic violence shelters, Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth said.
- With court relief uncertain, Oregon is seeking legislative backfill funds, as Rayfield warned, `These critical services can and will disappear overnight, leaving survivors without support`.
- The coalition claims these conditions violate separation of powers and are arbitrary, coercive, and unrelated to the grants’ intended purposes, affecting nearly 9 million crime victims annually.
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Days before a 2025 funding decision, Connecticut attorney general William Tong has joined a multi-state lawsuit against restrictions the Trump administration has placed on funding for victims of crime. Connecticut is one of 21 states suing to stop the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from withholding grants the state receives through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA). The DOJ recently announced the availability of $15.9 million in funding for vict…
Lawsuit: Trump threatens Delaware victims’ service funds over ICE aid
Why Should Delaware Care? Victims of violent crimes are able to tap into federal funds to pay for health services and even burial costs. But now the Trump administration is threatening to withhold that funding unless Delaware helps carry out the president’s immigration agenda. Delaware’s Attorney General sued the Trump administration Monday after it threatened to withhold nearly $15 million for victims of crime unless the state agreed to comply …
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