A federal judge has temporarily barred the Trump administration from cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in police and counterterrorism funding for New York and other Democratic-led states.

Eleven states plus the District of Columbia sued on Monday over what New York State Attorney General Letitia James ’ office said in a release was an "illegal" reallocation of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding from states that "refused to support the administration’s mass deportation agenda."

Judge Mary Susan McElroy in Rhode Island granted the states' motion for a temporary restraining order Tuesday afternoon. McElroy ordered Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to rescind the 2025 Homeland Security Grant Program award notifications and ordered her not to reallocate an

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