New Jersey and Delaware join New York, California, Illinois, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts for a planned lawsuit. Pennsylvania hasn't decided to join.

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.

New Jersey and other states call it unconstitutional. The Trump admininstration says it does not want money going to "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies."

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 on Tuesday: Leading the charge out of Sacramento is Attorney General Rob Bonta who,