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States sue Trump over more than $6bn in education funds

Afghan refugees board a school bus, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on April 30, 2025. Kentucky was among two dozen states to sue the Trump administration over the freezing of federal education funds. [Amira Karaoud/Reuters]

Two dozen states have sued the administration of United States President Donald Trump after the federal government froze $6.8bn in education funding.

On Monday, a group of 23 attorneys general and two governors filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island arguing that the decision to halt funds approved by the US Congress was “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious, and unconstitutional”.

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