{"id":894032,"date":"2026-03-24T04:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/judge-blocks-trump-administration-move-to-cut-600-million-in-hiv-funding-from-states\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:24:40","slug":"judge-blocks-trump-administration-move-to-cut-600-million-in-hiv-funding-from-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/judge-blocks-trump-administration-move-to-cut-600-million-in-hiv-funding-from-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Trump administration move to cut $600 million in HIV funding from states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration order slashing $600 million in federal grant funding for HIV programs in California and three other states, finding merit in the states\u2019 argument<\/a> that the move was politically motivated by disagreements over unrelated state sanctuary policies.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah, an Obama appointee in Illinois, found that California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota were likely to succeed in arguing that President Trump and other administration officials targeted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for termination \u201cbased on arbitrary, capricious, or unconstitutional rationales.\u201d<\/p>\n

Namely, Shah wrote that while Trump administration officials said the programs were cut for breaking with CDC priorities, other \u201crecent statements\u201d by officials \u201cplausibly suggest that the reason for the direction is hostility to what the federal government calls \u2018sanctuary jurisdictions\u2019 or \u2018sanctuary cities.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Shah found that the states had shown they would \u201csuffer irreparable harm\u201d from the cuts, and that the public interest would not be harmed by temporarily halting them \u2014 and as a result granted the states a temporary restraining order halting the administration\u2019s action for 14 days while the litigation continues. <\/p>\n

Shah wrote that while he may not have jurisdiction to block a simple grant termination, he did have jurisdiction to halt an administration directive to terminate funding based on unconstitutional grounds. <\/p>\n

\u201cMore factual development is necessary and it may be that the only government action at issue is termination of grants for which I have no jurisdiction to review,\u201d Shah wrote. \u201cBut as discussed, plaintiffs have made a sufficient showing that defendants issued internal guidance to terminate public-health grants for unlawful reasons; that guidance is enjoined as the parties develop a record.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cuts targeted a slate of programs<\/a> aimed at tracking and curtailing HIV and other disease outbreaks, including one of California\u2019s main early-warning systems for HIV outbreaks, state and local officials said. Some were oriented toward serving the LGBTQ+ community. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta\u2019s office said California faced \u201cthe largest share\u201d of the cuts.<\/p>\n

The White House said the cuts were to programs that \u201cpromote DEI and radical gender ideology,\u201d while federal health officials said the programs in question did not reflect the CDC\u2019s \u201cpriorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonta cheered Shah\u2019s order in a statement, saying he and his fellow attorneys general who sued are \u201cconfident that the facts and the law favor a permanent block of these reckless and illegal funding cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration order slashing $600 million in federal grant funding for HIV programs in California and three other states, finding merit in the states\u2019 argument that the move was politically motivated by disagreements over unrelated state sanctuary policies. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah, an Obama appointee in Illinois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":894033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844,559],"tags":[5611,5610],"class_list":{"0":"post-894032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blocks","8":"category-judge","9":"tag-blocks","10":"tag-judge"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}