Trump admin holding state disaster funds 'hostage' over 'mass deportation agenda': Lawsuit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : " "Defendants have ignored both principles, claiming undelegated power to place their own conditions on dozens of grant programs that Congress created and bulldozing through the Constitution's boundary between state and federal authority," the complaint states.
45% : The second, per the states, is that the federal government cannot "use the spending power to coerce States into adopting its preferred policies.
39% : States joining the lawsuit include New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
26% : "By hanging a halt in this critical funding over States like a sword of Damocles, Defendants impose immense harm on States, forcing them to choose between readiness for disasters and emergencies, on the one hand, and their judgment about how best to investigate and prosecute crimes, on the other.

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