{"id":17523,"date":"2026-01-10T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-halts-trumps-10-billion-social-safety-net-funding-freeze\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:22:21","slug":"judge-halts-trumps-10-billion-social-safety-net-funding-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-halts-trumps-10-billion-social-safety-net-funding-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge halts Trump&#8217;s $10 billion social safety net funding freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration&#8217;s $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the freeze &mdash; impacting child care and family assistance funding in California&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5682624-trump-funding-freeze-paused\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration&#8217;s $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the freeze &mdash; impacting child care and family assistance funding in California&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}