Attorneys general and other officials from 23 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration for its decision to claw back $11 billion that went to public health departments for COVID-19 efforts and addiction and mental health programs.

Republican states will bear the brunt of some of President Donald Trump 's biggest budget cuts after Democratic states launched successful legal challenges. Newsweek sought email comment on Thursday from the Department of Defense; the office of Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Senator Marsha Blackburn.

A public health association and one of the nation’s largest worker unions are suing the Trump administration over the abrupt cancellation of hundreds of research grants, arguing that the moves were arbitrary and capricious and that the federal grant process is supposed to be above politics.

The Trump administration has suspended dozens of federal research grants at Princeton University, escalating its campaign against Ivy League institutions over alleged campus antisemitism, reported the Associated Press,

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by Wisconsin and 22 other states and asks the court to block the cancellation of billions in grants.

After decades of partnership with the U.S. government, American colleges are facing new doubts about the future of their federal funding.

Harvard University became the latest institution to face federal scrutiny from the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump’s federal funding cuts are poised to slow down growth in the installation of electric-vehicle charging stations across the country, according to the chief executive officer of a company that supplies them.