Feb 10, 2025 | 24 attorneys general | disaster relief | District of Rhode Island | Elon Musk | Freezing Federal Funds | Head Start | law enforcement programs | litigation | Medicaid | Motion to Enforce | Trump Administration | VP Vance | Attorney General Statement | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following statement in response to the District of Rhode Island’s decision to enforce the court’s prior order preventing the Trump Administration from implementing its freeze of up to $3 trillion in federal funding.
Feb 9, 2025 | "deferred resignation" | “Fork in the Road” directive | 21 state attorneys general | accept a legally fraught “buyout” | AFGE Local 3707 | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | County and Municipal Employees | Delaware | Donald Trump | Elon Musk | federal employees | federal ethics regulations | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Nevada | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | potential termination | Rhode Island | the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) | the American Federation of State | the District of Columbia | the National Association of Government Employees | the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) | Trump administration’s federal “buyout” plan | Vermont | Washington | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today joined a coalition of 21 state attorneys general, standing with the nation’s federal employees in a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal “buyout” plan. The so-called “Fork in the Road” directive is an attempt to force federal workers to choose, with only days to decide, between accepting a legally fraught “buyout” and potentially being terminated.
Feb 7, 2025 | "special government employees" | Arizona | bank account details | block federal funds to states | Bureau of Fiscal Services (“BFS”) | California | central payment system | childcare | Colorado | Connecticut | critical services | Delaware | DOGE | Elon Musk | essential services like law enforcement | Hawaii | Health Care | Illinois | infrastructure repairs | Lawsuit | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Medicare and Medicaid payments | Minnesota | Nevada | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | public education | Rhode Island | Social Security numbers | Social Security payments | Treasury Department | Trump Administration | unelected billionaire | Vermont | veterans benefits | vital funding | Wisconsin | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the unauthorized disclosure of Americans’ private information and sensitive data.
Feb 7, 2025 | 22 attorneys general | coallition | court orders | critical funding to states | ensure funding | Federal Funding | funding for new jersey | states file motions | Trump Administration | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, with a coalition of 22 other attorneys general, filed a motion for preliminary injunction in New York v. Trump, the ongoing lawsuit challenging actions by President Trump, the Office of Management and Budget, and federal agencies that attempted to pause or withhold nearly $3 trillion in federal assistance funding allocated to the states that support critical programs and services that benefit the American people.
