US EditionJudge Orders Restored Disaster Funding to Democratic-Led States
Judge Mary McElroy ruled the $233 million DHS funding cut was an unlawful abuse of power targeting Democratic states, restoring disaster aid and counterterrorism grants.
- On Dec 24, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy ordered the Trump administration to reinstate $233 million in FEMA funding to 12 states, including Washington, D.C., after cuts linked to immigration policy refusals.
- By design, DHS attempted to condition grants on state cooperation with immigration enforcement, and the Trump administration sought to redirect DHS and FEMA funds after an earlier ruling this year found withholding unconstitutional.
- U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy wrote, `To hold hostage funding for programs like these based solely on what appear to be political whims is unconscionable and, at least here, unlawful`, citing recent shootings at Brown University and MIT to criticize DHS's proposed cuts.
- DHS officials criticized the $233 million cuts and vowed to fight, calling it 'judicial sabotage'; state leaders celebrated, Vermont receiving $12 million.
- Looking ahead, the litigation could prolong uncertainty for disaster and security programs, with the legal fight likely to continue as DHS plans to appeal, and states argue the funds are part of a $1 billion program for law enforcement and natural disasters.
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Judge orders restored disaster funding to Democratic-led states
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must restore $233 million in disaster funding to at least a dozen states. The funding was previously slashed over so-called "sanctuary" immigration policies.
Judge McElroy's decision consolidated a victory for the coalition of 12 state attorney generals who filed a lawsuit against the federal government
Judge orders Trump to restore Homeland Security funds to non-compliant states, ruling cuts unlawful
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, as part of a coalition of 12 attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania, won her lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance wit
Return disaster funds: judge
A FEDERAL JUDGE has ordered the return of disaster funds to some states (Shutterstock). Disaster money must be restored to states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement. According to the Associated Press, that’s the ruling of U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy on a suit by attorneys from eight Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia. The U.S Department of Homeland Security has withheld over $233 million fr…
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