Trump admin yanks $600M from four blue states including for HIV

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By Daniel Hampton
Published February 9, 2026 9:29 PM ET

The Trump administration is yanking $600 million in public health funding from four blue states — California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota — claiming the grants don't align with agency priorities.

Documents obtained by The New York Times reveal the sweeping cuts to programs administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funds, used for hiring staff, modernizing data systems, and managing disease outbreaks, will be terminated over the coming weeks after congressional committees were notified Monday.

Nearly two-thirds of the slashed money came from unspent California allocations. The Department of Health and Human Services claimed the grants simply "no longer reflect" current priorities. About two dozen programs targeted HIV and sexually transmitted infections, according to the report.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-funding-cuts/

Again, this BS from this malignant narcissistic needs to be blamed on every maga senator, congressional person and the 6 maga US Supreme Court justices feet and any of the maga judges that are enabling this jerk, they were given the opportunity to impeach and remove this person and they failed.........people are dying , kids will die..............end of story.............. .

[LSparkle]

1. Masking up in CA until further notice

West Cost states have formed a health alliance and I hope our good governor will keep us apprised of when it’s safe to take them off. I wasn’t going to trust my health to Brainworm Guy anyway.

[Deuxcents]

2. How is he allowed to do this with allocated funds..back to the courts to stop this?

[Bayard]

7. I don't see how he keeps trying to claw back funds that have already been allocated by Congress

And I certainly don't see how its going to stand to only do this to blue states.

[yaesu]

8. The states will sue, a judge will reinstate, and tRump will ignore because there is no way to enforce.

All our rules and laws are just paper tigers.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. And the people in those states are forced to keep sending

their tax money to the Federal Govt so tRump can pocket it and send a little of it to red states.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Whose turn is it to sue him?

[struggle4progress]

5. "How can I scrape together the billions I want to steal from the treasury?"

[Initech]

9. He needs to be yanked from the White House and he can go fuck himself.