Trump cuts off $10B in funding to five blue states for child care, social services over fraud fears | 5 Jan 2026 | The Trump administration is cutting off more than $10 billion in social services and child care funding meant for a handful of Democratic-led states over concerns that the benefits were fraudulently funneled to non-citizens, officials told The Post Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services will freeze taxpayer funding from the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and the Social Services Block Grant program. At least $7.35 billion in TANF money will be prevented from going to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. The CCDF funding block of nearly $2.4 billion affects all those states.
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