07/16/2025
BREAKING: Twenty-four Democratic states and D.C. hit Donald Trump with a massive lawsuit to challenge his administration's destructive freeze on education funding for after-school programs and specialized instruction.
And it gets even better...
"The federal government cannot use our children’s classrooms to advance its assault on immigrant and working families,” stated New York Attorney General Letitia James.
"This illegal and unjustified funding freeze will be devastating for students and families nationwide, especially for those who rely on these programs for childcare or to learn English. Congress allocated these funds and the law requires they be delivered. We will not allow this administration to rewrite the rules to punish the communities it doesn’t like," she added.
The suit accuses the Trump administration of violating the Constitution as well as numerous federal laws by blocking $6 billion in funding for after-school programs, English language instruction, teacher training, expansions of science and arts programs, and anti-bullying efforts.
The money was supposed to be disbursed on July 1st but instead the administration blocked it and provided no timeline for when, if ever, it will be released. They're claiming in typically dishonest MAGA fashion that the money is subsidizing a "radical leftwing agenda" and gestured towards the money being used to help "illegal immigrants."
In truth, this funding block is just another prong of the broader Republican effort to gut our federal government and deny Americans crucial services to pay for more billionaire tax cuts. Any time they want to get rid of something, they accuse it of being "woke" or "DEI" or "radically leftist." In the process, they're betraying American children and depriving this country of future educated, well-equipped citizens.
Thanks to Trump's freeze, summer programs have already been put at risk or cancelled outright, hurting innocent children and needlessly complicating the lives of working class parents who rely on the programs. Since there was no prior warning, the states have had no time to bridge the funding gap.
The lawsuit includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia.
The plaintiffs are requesting a preliminary injunction against the freeze and for a judge to force Trump to release the money.
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