The whole thing of holding Up about $10 Billion in childcare funding in FIVE Democratic states IS PURE Politics…..
There IS fraud in any and ALL government run programs….
To single out state and to cause harm to their residents and children IS a new LOW….
The Feds should do their checks and try to fix as much as they can find….
And keep the money flowing for the programs that are legit ….
A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the Trump administration from freezing roughly $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services destined for five Democratic-led states, keeping funds flowing until a lawsuit against the government can progress.
In a brief order on Friday, Judge Arun Subramanian directed the Trump administration to release funds for three social services programs it had planned to withhold for the next two weeks while a legal challenge by the affected states continues.
The decision came less than a day after the five states targeted by the Trump administration — New York, California, Minnesota, Illinois and Colorado — filed a lawsuit arguing that the freeze could create havoc among families with young children.
According to the suit, on Jan. 5 and 6, officials in the five states received letters notifying them of an immediate pause in funding for three major programs that serve low-income families and people with disabilities. That included around $7.3 billion through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, as well as nearly $2.4 billion from the Child Care and Development Fund, in addition to a number of smaller social service grants.
The programs disproportionately benefit vulnerable and low-income families, and the cuts could cumulatively upend support systems for hundreds of thousands of households across the five states, the lawsuit argued.
“This decision is a critical victory for families whose lives have been upended by this administration’s cruelty,” Letitia James, the New York attorney general, said in a statement. “From child care to shelter services for survivors of domestic violence, these funds provide resources that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers depend on.”
The Trump administration has suggested that the freeze was a reaction to allegations of fraud within Minnesota’s state social safety net programs, though it has yet to provide evidence that similar schemes took place at scale in the other four states it targeted….
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During a hearing on Friday in a federal court in New York, lawyers representing the states asked Judge Subramanian to take immediate action. They argued that states such as Illinois and California were already seeing requests for hundreds of millions of dollars go unfulfilled, and that the budgetary shortfalls could lead to near-immediate disruptions.
“This cannot wait a week,” said Jessica Ranucci, a lawyer with the New York State attorney general’s office.
The lawsuit also anticipated grave effects on residents, including parents who might lose their jobs because of a lapse in child care and, as a result, their eligibility for other federal programs such as food stamps that require participants to be employed.
“It will create a tremendous burden on the state administrative systems and also harms with the ripple effects within the community,” Ms. Ranucci said….
Trump’s Funding Freeze Will Hurt Child Care
“Child care providers, already under financial strain, face their greatest test yet as the Trump administration imposes new rules and restrictions on funding,” Axios reports.
“Federal money underpins the entire industry — vital to millions of parents trying to manage work and family, across all income levels.”
Aren’t the Republicans meant to be the party of family?
They are.
The Trump Family..