12 entries in the ledger
U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali ruled on September 28, 2026, that FEMA could not condition roughly $1 billion a year in terrorism-preparedness grants on states "exploring a transition to paper ballots or verifying...
The Justice Department announced on Sept. 2, 2026 an Office of Legal Counsel opinion, dated Sept. 1, holding that when a state participates in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income...
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, joined by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas, sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools on Sept. 1, 2026, in what the department called a first-of-its-kind case...
In an Aug. 28, 2026 letter to the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents, made public in early September, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley wrote that federal...
The Defense Department ordered 30 U.S. universities on Monday to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities and military training institutions. Schools that do not complete a review and terminate...
On July 21, 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services deferred more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, withholding roughly $867.5 million from California and about $199 million from...
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled Friday, July 17, 2026 that the Trump administration cannot rely on a grant "termination clause" tied to "agency priorities" to cancel billions of dollars in federal...
According to court documents filed July 13, 2026, the Trump administration rescinded a roughly $10 billion freeze on child care subsidies and social services funding directed at five Democratic-led states — California...
Vice President JD Vance, acting in his role as the administration's fraud czar, announced that the federal government would defer $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California. CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz described...
On April 24, 2026, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul sued the Trump administration to restore roughly $73.5 million in federal highway funding that the Department of Transportation moved...