Apr 25, 2025 | coalition of attorneys general | Critical Federal Funding | Federal Funding | K-12 schools | Lawsuit | Title VI | Trump Administration | U.S. Department of Education | Unlawful Conditions | Press Release
New Jersey Attorney General Platkin announced that he and a coalition of 18 other attorneys general have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s threat to withhold federal funding from state education agencies and local school districts that maintain lawful programs and policies that promote equal access to education in K-12 classrooms.
Apr 3, 2025 | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Federal Funding | Governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania | Hawaii | HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Illinois | Lawsuit | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota New Mexico | Nevada | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | public health grants | Rhode Island | temporary restraining order | the District of Columbia | Trump Administration | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) | Washington | Wisconsin | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin commended a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island granting a temporary restraining order that prevents the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., from abruptly and illegally terminating $11 billion in critical public health grants to the states, including more than $350 million in federal funding for New Jersey.
Feb 7, 2025 | 22 attorneys general | coallition | court orders | critical funding to states | ensure funding | Federal Funding | funding for new jersey | states file motions | Trump Administration | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, with a coalition of 22 other attorneys general, filed a motion for preliminary injunction in New York v. Trump, the ongoing lawsuit challenging actions by President Trump, the Office of Management and Budget, and federal agencies that attempted to pause or withhold nearly $3 trillion in federal assistance funding allocated to the states that support critical programs and services that benefit the American people.
Jan 28, 2025 | Arizona | California | childcare services to families in need | Colorado | combat hate crimes and violence against women | Connecticut | critical health | Delaware | deliver support to public schools | federal executive agencies | Federal Funding | federal grant funding | Freezing Funds | Hawaii | Illinois | Lawsuit | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | multistate | Nevada | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Office of Management and Budget (OMB) | Oregon | provide life-saving disaster relief to states | Rhode Island | the District of Columbia | Trump Administration | unconstitutional | Vermont | Washington | Wisconsin | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and a coalition of 22 other attorneys general sued to stop the implementation of a new Trump administration policy that orders the withholding of trillions of dollars in funding that provides essential services to millions of Americans in every state.
