The Trump administration was temporarily blocked on Friday by a federal judge in New York from freezing billions in welfare funding for child care and social services programs.
U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian’s order comes after the Department of Health and Human Services paused roughly $10 billion in funding to California, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado on the basis of alleged widespread fraud, prompting a lawsuit from the five states. The funding flowed from the Child Care and Development Fund, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and the Social Services Block Grant.
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