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Federal judge blocks Trump from cutting childcare funds to Democratic states over fraud concerns

Minnesota, California, New York, Colorado and Illinois won a temporary victory Friday in a lawsuit over a federal funding freeze related to fraud concerns.

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Judge halts Trump’s $10 billion social safety net funding freeze

A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration's $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the freeze — impacting child care and family assistance funding in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New...