Overview
- The amended Space Command lawsuit now cites termination of $109 million in transportation funds, planned cuts to $615 million in Energy Department funds, a plan to dismantle NCAR, a SNAP recertification demand, and FEMA disaster aid denials.
- The filing links these measures to pressure over Colorado’s mail-in voting system and the state’s refusal to release former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from prison.
- Separate ACF letters placed Colorado on a temporary restricted drawdown for TANF, the Social Services Block Grant, and the Child Care and Development Fund, with detailed recipient data requested by Jan. 20.
- Trump issued a federal pardon for Peters, but her state conviction and nine-year sentence remain, and Gov. Jared Polis declined a request to transfer her to federal custody.
- Colorado says it will join legal challenges to orders keeping the Craig 1 coal plant open, and the White House did not immediately comment on the amended lawsuit.