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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

20 states sue Trump over his plans to cut homeless funding and put thousands on the street

More than 20 states are suing Donald Trump’s administration to restore billions of dollars in grant funding to combat homelessness, with tens of thousand of Americans at risk of losing shelter.

A federal lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democratic officials from 19 other states asks a judge to block the administration’s cuts and “illegal” new conditions on funding through a 40-year-old anti-homelessness program in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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