"A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's move to freeze $10 billion in child-care funds in five Democrat-led states including California. The ruling Friday afternoon capped a tumultuous stretch that began earlier this week when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told California officials and those in Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York that it would freeze federal funding over fraud concerns."
"An attorney for the states argued Friday morning that there was an immediate need for funding - and that withholding it would cause chaos by depriving families of their ability to pay for child care, and would harm child-care providers who would lose income. The federal government's effort has been viewed as a broad attack on social services in California, and jolted tens of thousands of working families and the state's child care industry."
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking a freeze of $10 billion in federal child-care funds to five Democrat-led states, including California. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had told officials in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York it would freeze funding over concerns of potential extensive and systemic fraud. California faced about $1.4 billion in frozen federal child-care funding. State attorneys sued in federal court in Manhattan seeking to block the funding freeze and demands for large volumes of administrative data. State lawyers argued the withholding would deprive families of their ability to pay for child care and would harm providers that operate on slim margins, threatening centers and jolting working families.
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