Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: New York Times

Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States

The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.



A Department of Health and Human Services spokesman cited “massive amounts of fraud” as the reason for the freeze, but did not provide evidence of fraud in four of the states. Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

By Minho Kim
Reporting from Washington
Jan. 6, 2026
Updated 9:09 a.m. ET

The Trump administration plans to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in five states controlled by Democrats, claiming widespread fraud throughout those states, without citing evidence, after a major welfare fraud scheme in one of them.

Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter. The five states will also lose access to nearly $2.4 billion for the Child Care Development Fund, which supports child care for working parents, and around $870 million for social services grants that mostly benefit children at risk, the people said.

The funding pause could jeopardize programs that serve hundreds of thousands of low-income households in the five states.

The planned freeze appears to build on the administration’s pause last week in $185 million in annual aid to Minnesota day care centers after investigators said that more than a dozen welfare fraud schemes in that state had led to billions of dollars in taxpayer losses.

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Chris Cameron contributed reporting.

Minho Kim reports on breaking news for The Times from Washington.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/minho-kim

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/child-care-funding-cuts-trump.html

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“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Monstrously cruel.

— Murshed Zaheed (@murshedz.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T14:20:57.828Z

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Murshed Zaheed
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“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Monstrously cruel.

Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
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9:20 AM · Jan 6, 2026
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[lonely bird]

1. Sigh

The Somali thing is bullshit and will disappear.

Regarding fraud in general? Well, Trump is an expert in fraud. The courts found him to be.

[Moostache]

2. NEEDED: These same 5 states have announced they are no longer sending ANY funds to the federal criminal cabal.

The only appropriate response to a criminal federal cabal is non-cooperation and non-participation. Start the break up NOW!

[popsdenver]

24. No real way to do that

The corporations deduct the money and send it directly to the Government which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporations.........

The Republican CABAL has been hammering us here in Colorado, not sending any "normal, pre-allocated" money to our state.
Along with other Blue States, that already send them far more money than we ever receive from the Fed Gov't.
There are a mass of Red states that send an incredible low amount to the Feds, and get far more than they send.....
That is esp true these past few decades.

The budgets for Colorado and Denver are in a real tail spin thanks to all of this.....

[mahina]

3. Terrorists.

[MaineBlueBear]

4. Cruelty is the point

The party of family values

[the_liberal_grandpa]

5. Time For : Blue States To Secede? Foreign countries sell off our bonds?

Whatever it takes to stop sending my tax dolllars to this crime syndicate.

Unfortunately if we don't find a way to politically stop this madman and it doesn't look like we can,
we need to cripple him by taking our money away from him.

[yardwork]

11. At some point this is going to become a real topic.

The United States is a big country and it's starting to look like we're irretrievably divided.

I understand that it's not really a red state/blue state divide. It's actually a rural/urban divide. Democrats in SC, AR, and WY are just as true blue as the ones in NY, CA, and VT.

But at some point people in states that consistently elect progressives are going to get tired of being bullied by the morons who keep getting elected in deep red states. Being a deep red state now means that the state's leaders don't believe in science, medicine, education, a postal service, a national weather service, or any other public goods. And those voters have an outsize influence on national elections. I have a lot of sympathy for people stuck there. I'm one myself, here in purple N.C. with a MAGAT state legislature pushing everyone around. But this can't go on. We have options.

California alone has one of the world's largest GDP. The digital age means we don't have to contiguous (Alaska and Hawaii aren't anyway).

Imagine a nation made up of CA, HI, WA, MN, MI, NY and the rest of the northeast, VA, NM, and CO - maybe more. That country would be a powerhouse. It would include leading research institutions, medical systems, and strong economies. And many of those states are refuges from climate change.

The economic disparity with the remaining states would be stark. This new blue nation's economic, health, education, and every quality of life indicator would far exceed even that of the current U.S.

I never thought I'd even consider this but I've simply had it with being ruled by morons who are dismantling civilization. Since they won't move to Russia, let them have their own country and sit in their own squalor and ignorance. I'm that angry.

[creon]

13. Rural/ Urban is a large part of it.

Many Rural people hate the big city.

[yardwork]

14. I understand but as I say, this can't go on.

[vapor2]

27. AGREED, this shit needs to stop

but republicans will do fucking nothing

[creon]

29. That will not be easy.

It has gone here for generations; hard to make extinct.
It is quite common in other countries.

[Blackjackdavey]

17. Many rural people love it.

What my rural brethren hate is people, places and things that they are indoctrinated from birth to fear.

[lindalou65]

25. A divided country

I feel much as you do on this and I know others who feel the same. By the way, thank you for including New Mexico because we are often overlooked as a Blue state (actually some people don't think we are part of the US). Who knows what will really happen but we the people have to rise up in huge numbers. We have got to do something. I am both mad and scared and feel helpless. We're dealing with a treasonous and revengeful president (dictator) who is unfit mentally and medically. Then, he aligns himself with other dictators with the goal of changing the world order.

My Representative is Melanie Stansbury and she is terrific and does not sit on the sidelines. We are very proud of her.
Other states have senators and representatives who are putting themselves out there and at times, at a huge risk. Somehow something has to work

If there is such a thing as Karma, please save us from this nightmare!

[vapor2]

28. THIS TREASON NEEDS TO STOP

I, too, am fearful and sick of the uncertainty from day to day. Karma does exist but taking it's time for sure

[yardwork]

32. New Mexico rocks!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Full disclosure: this might not be late breaking news.

According to its time stamp, the New York Post had the story yesterday. It is not regarded as a credible source at DU. The time stamp seems off, as the story is just now showing up everywhere else.

I report; you decide.

Politics * exclusive

Trump cuts off $10B in funding to five blue states for child care, social services over fraud fears

By Josh Christenson
Published Jan. 5, 2026, 12:53 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is cutting off more than $10 billion in social services and child care funding meant for a handful of Democrat-led states over concerns that the benefits were fraudulently funneled to non-citizens, officials told The Post Monday.

The Department of Health and Human Services will freeze taxpayer funding from the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and the Social Services Block Grant program.

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[ificandream]

19. You are correct about the Post.

It is not considered a reputable source by DU. But as far as LBN goes, the first reputable sources are LBN.

[choie]

20. There's a link to the Times

[intheflow]

7. Heartless ratfuckers.

[ChicagoTeamster]

8. Who needs evidence? Remember Pizzagate?

[Jacson6]

9. At this point we should no longer care about the US government.

If it goes the way of the Soviet Union then that is fine. WA, OR & CA could make their own republic.

[chowder66]

10. Guess who also lives in blue states? Republicans, Independents, etc. They are broadcasting the murder of U.S. citizens

with an emphasis on Democrats.

[creon]

12. Vindictive

The GOP hates the Democratic and hates those who vote Democratic.

Hatred is their metier.

[Fil1957]

15. Is this even legal? Oh, never mind...

[wiggs]

16. But they need that money for imperialism in Venezuela, Argentina, and Greenland! nt

[ificandream]

18. I hope someone is putting together a lawsuit on this.

Whether or not the courts will find this unconstitutional, it must be challenged. And I think on the basis of prejudice, it certainly is unconstitutional.

[Nittersing]

21. And when people can't afford their basic needs

they will turn to crime. They won't have a choice.

And it just goes downhill from there.

[Faux pas]

22. Aren't those states able to

cover their own needs? Because they have surpluses?

[Nigrum Cattus]

23. to all republicans

Damn the republicans who harm us
May evil return to the republicans 10 fold
Let the suffering intended for us
Be visited upon all the republicans

[mdbl]

26. FUCK YOU HHS! Most of the money you have came from blue states.,.

So sick of this bullshit.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Those pro-life Republicans

[LittleWoman]

31. Proof that irony is not dead

The Health Department is housed in the Hubert H Humphrey building--

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”

Hubert H Humphrey