{"id":2629562,"date":"2026-07-14T11:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-ends-10-billion-childcare-subsidies-freeze\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:44:39","slug":"trump-administration-ends-10-billion-childcare-subsidies-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-ends-10-billion-childcare-subsidies-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration ends $10 billion childcare subsidies freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-administration-ends-10-billion-childcare-subsidies-freeze%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2629562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump governance has reopened access to approximately $10 billion in federal funding for childcare and social services in five Democratic-led states-California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York-lifting previous restrictions imposed earlier this year. These restrictions were initially part of a broader effort to combat widespread welfare fraud, starting with Minnesota and later extending to the other states. The legal battle began when the states sued, calling the funding freeze \u201cbaseless and cruel.\u201d The Department of health and Human Services formally rescinded the restrictions and eliminated additional eligibility data requirements, but the administration\u2019s move has been met with ongoing legal challenges. the states argue that the administration\u2019s sudden withdrawal of restrictions was a tactic to avoid legal scrutiny and obtain finding documents they seek. This funding dispute is part of a wider campaign by the Trump administration to address fraud and abuse in federal programs, including efforts led by Vice President JD Vance to target fraud in health and employment benefit programs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"339\">Trump administration<\/a> has lifted its freeze on roughly $10 billion in federal <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/child-care\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1393\">childcare<\/a> and social services funding for five Democrat-led states, prompting a legal fight over whether the lawsuit challenging the funding halt should continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/health-and-human-services\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"364\">Department of Health and Human Services <\/a>sent nearly <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.655886\/gov.uscourts.nysd.655886.119.2.pdf\">identical letters<\/a> to officials in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York informing them that it was rescinding restrictions imposed earlier this year on access to federal childcare and social services funding, according to court filings. The department also withdrew requirements that the states submit additional eligibility data, which it had said were necessary to verify recipients qualified for benefits.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4647308\/appeals-court-tylenol-use-pregnancy-lawsuits-autism-parents\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Appeals court revives lawsuit against Tylenol brought by parents of children with autism<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4646244\/judge-bars-trump-irs-immunity-deal-evade-investigation-past-tax-filings\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Judge bars Trump from using IRS immunity deal to evade investigation over past tax filings<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4646233\/epstein-survivors-letters-senate-judiciary-oppose-blanche-nomination\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Epstein survivors send letters to Senate Judiciary opposing Todd Blanche nomination<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4408743\/trump-10-billion-cut-child-care-funding\/\">funding dispute <\/a>began in January after the administration froze childcare funding for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/minnesota\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"443\">Minnesota<\/a> as part of a broader crackdown on rampant fraud in social service programs. HHS later expanded similar funding restrictions to California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado as the administration alleged <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/minnesota-fraud\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"20051\">widespread welfare fraud<\/a> in Democrat-led states.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days after the funding freeze, California and the other states sued the Trump administration, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4412835\/california-multistate-lawsuit-trump-child-care-funding-freeze\/\">calling<\/a> its decision \u201cbaseless and cruel.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyers for the Trump administration said the states\u2019 lawsuit should be dismissed since HHS returned the funding. Attorneys representing the five states, however, opposed dismissal, arguing the administration could simply reinstate the restrictions if the case were thrown out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHaving failed at their first gambit to convince Plaintiffs to consent to mootness, Defendants are now taking another tactic to avoid judicial review and the discovery to which they consented,\u201d attorney for New York Rabia Muqaddam <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.655886\/gov.uscourts.nysd.655886.120.0.pdf\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She argued the administration abruptly withdrew its request for a permanent injunction \u201cwithout any good faith effort\u201d to address the states\u2019 concerns and was attempting to end the case before producing documents the states had sought through discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4631348\/trump-administration-cut-funding-new-york-fraud-unit\/\">Trump administration cuts off funding to New York fraud unit: \u2018Enough is enough\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDefendants have been actively resisting Plaintiffs\u2019 efforts to obtain discovery,\u201d she continued. \u201cNow, with limited options to avoid their obligation to turn over relevant and responsive documents, Defendants are attempting to unilaterally resolve the case. But Defendants cannot resolve this case through only a one-sided and self-serving stipulation, with no opportunity for Plaintiffs to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funding dispute is part of the Trump administration\u2019s broader campaign to root out \u201cfraud, waste, and abuse\u201d in federal benefit programs. Earlier this year, President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump <\/a>appointed Vice President<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"7658\"> JD Vance<\/a> to lead the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which has targeted alleged abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and the H-1B visa program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump lifts $10B social services funding for 5 states, legal fight ensues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4195,"featured_media":2629563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/iStock-1089273222-e1784041386562.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[82695,36513,42299,38399,32640],"class_list":["post-2629562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-childcare-subsidies","tag-federal-funding","tag-government-budget","tag-policy-change","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/iStock-1089273222-e1784041386562.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629566,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629562\/revisions\/2629566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}