Dozens of Democratic lawmakers from the blue states targeted by the Trump administration’s latest funding freeze are calling on the administration to restore more than $10 billion cut from social welfare programs.
More than 70 lawmakers signed a letter, first obtained by NOTUS, to the Department of Health and Human Services asking for the funds to be released. Funding has been cut for five states: New York, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Illinois.
In making the cuts, the Trump administration argued that the social service spending is riddled with fraud. The Democratic lawmakers pushed back on that assessment.