WASHINGTON — 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, 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 $2.3 billion affects all those states except Colorado.
Another $869 million from the Social Services Block Grant’s coffers is being kept from all five states.
The funding pauses were to be announced via letters to each states, citing concerns that benefits were fraudulently going to non-US citizens.
Reps for the governors’ offices in each of the five states did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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