1/29/2025

LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general suing to stop the implementation of a new Trump administration policy that appears to order the withholding of trillions of dollars in funding that every state in the country relies on to provide services to millions of Americans.  The new policy, issued by the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), puts a pause on the majority of federal assistance to states. The Attorney General says the policy would immediately jeopardize state programs that provide critical health and childcare services to families in need, deliver support to public schools, combat hate crimes and violence against women, provide life-saving disaster relief to states, and more.  Attorney General Nessel and the coalition of attorneys general are seeking a court order to immediately stop the enforcement of the OMB policy and preserve funding. Joining Michigan in the lawsuit are the attorneys general in Wisconsin and Minnesota.