A U.S. District Court judge in Illinois granted a temporary restraining order to reinstate $602 million in public health grants allocated for four states that the Trump administration had moved to cancel.
Last week, the Office of Management and Budget ordered the CDC to cancel the grants to California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota, as well as $943 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation that had been allocated to the states — both effective Feb. 11. Combined, the cuts totaled more than $1.5 billion in grant funding for the four states.
The cuts were first reported by