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Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states
Judge McElroy ordered restoration of over $233 million in Homeland Security grants to 12 states after ruling cuts tied to immigration enforcement violate legal funding rules.
- 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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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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