This would be ‘devastating’: California sues to stop Trump’s chaos-inducing funding freeze

Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending programs, California’s Democratic elected officials and agency heads offered two consistent responses this week:

1. We don’t know what this means yet and;
2. It’s almost definitely illegal.

Leading the charge out of Sacramento is Attorney General Rob Bonta who, along with 22 other Democratic state attorneys general, filed a fresh lawsuit challenging the ordered funding freeze and asking a court to block it from going into effect.