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

New York's federal funding for child care and cash aid to the poor has been frozen by the Trump administration in action affecting five blue states.

The grants in question help fund targeted child care and family assistance programs. For people in the affected states, this can become a household budgetary issue

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order that will temporarily halt the freeze of federal funds to keep low-income families housed, fed and in child care.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will now dissolve, meaning public broadcasting is losing millions of dollars in federal funding.

Illinois and the four other Democratic-led states that were subject to the Trump administration’s freeze on $10 billion in federal funding for child care and family services secured a restraining order on Friday in their lawsuit seeking to block the move.

Congressman Andy Harris has announced that $4,785,000 in federal funding will be delivered for the Slaughter Creek Dredging Project in Slaughter Creek, Maryland. The funding comes from the Energy &

Today, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced they secured $5 million in federal funding for critical North Country projects in the pending Fiscal Year 2026 spending bill. The senators personally secured funding for these projects as congressionally directed spending.

Carteret police officers and other first responders are set to receive modern communications equipment as part of $1 million in federal funds secured through the Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations bills, U.S. Rep Frank Pallone Jr. announced.