Overview
- Justice Department materials identify 12 states and multiple major cities, including Boston, as sanctuary jurisdictions targeted by the policy.
- The White House declined to elaborate beyond the president’s speech, leaving which programs would be affected or exempt unresolved.
- A federal judge on Jan. 9 temporarily blocked an HHS halt to childcare-related subsidies in five states, highlighting early court pushback.
- HHS has moved to withhold certain funds in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York over alleged fraud, and Trump said nearly 8,000 SBA loans in Minnesota are suspended with about 100 people charged.
- Trump said the Justice Department will create a legal strike force to pursue fraud and will seek to revoke citizenship in fraud cases involving naturalized immigrants.