"It was deja vu from 2025: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week announced more than $600 million in cuts to public health grants in California, Illinois, Colorado and Minnesota four Democratic-led states. Right away, attorneys general in the affected states filed their lawsuit late Wednesday in a federal district court in Illinois asking for the temporary restraining order. And the next day, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's action with a temporary restraining order released late Thursday."
"In an opinion accompanying the order, U.S. District Judge Manish S. Shah wrote that even though the stated reason for the cancellations was that the grants did not align with the priorities of the CDC, 'recent statements plausibly suggest that the reason for the direction [to cut the funds] is hostility to what the federal government calls 'sanctuary jurisdictions' or 'sanctuary cities.'"
""Two large grants that we rely on for core functions in public health to keep people safe and healthy have now been canceled," says Dr. Sarah Rudman, director of the county's public health department. "The way these grants are applied throughout our department, they're integrated with a huge range of activities we sometimes have to do by law and are absolutely integral to keeping people safe.""
The CDC announced more than $600 million in public health grant cuts affecting California, Illinois, Colorado and Minnesota. Attorneys general from the affected states filed a federal lawsuit and sought a temporary restraining order. A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order and noted that recent statements plausibly suggest hostility toward 'sanctuary jurisdictions' as a motive. The funding was part of a bipartisan bill signed by the president weeks earlier. Local officials reported immediate operational impacts, including cancellation of two major grants and loss of funding for a public health laboratory staffer.
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