The Trump administration's freeze on federal loans and grants is being challenged in court on multiple fronts.

A coalition of states, including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, are expected to file the challenge later on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York.

"This is one of the reasons why states have got to get to court and take on Donald Trump," Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday.

Democratic attorneys general from states including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are moving to keep funds flowing to state governments and cities.

Massachusetts is expected to join in legal action as President Trump's administration begins a review of spending that could freeze trillions of government dollars.

Platkin was among the officials from 18 states, San Francisco and Washington, DC, who filed the case in federal court in Boston. Washington State Attorney General Nicholas Brown led a coalition of four other states, including Illinois, that filed a similar lawsuit in the Seattle federal court.

Illinois joined a list of states filing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s new executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.

State legislatures kept busy last year, passing seven new comprehensive privacy laws, and wrapping up 2024 with a total of nineteen

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests. Some Massachusetts hospitals and clinics are posting privacy rights in emergency and waiting rooms in Spanish and other languages.

Joining Attorney General James in securing the settlement in principle are the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon ...

Your prior year return will give you a good starting point for figuring out what documents you need to have handy to fill out your 2024 return, said Tom O’Saben, director of tax content and government relations at the National Association of Tax Professionals.

Initially, the IRS made Direct File available only to government employees in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming. It was later made available to private-sector taxpayers.