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California, 10 other states and D.C. sued, arguing the cuts illegally cost them hundreds of millions in emergency preparedness funding.

The reductions disproportionately targeted blue states while red states saw increases, according to the states’ emergency lawsuit.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a Trump administration plan to reduce disaster relief and anti-terrorism funding for states with so-called sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants.

U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy granted the temporary restraining order curtailing the cuts at the request of California, 10 other states and the District of Columbia, which argued in a lawsuit Monday that the polic

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