Minnesota state officials were scrambling Tuesday to assess a potentially wide-ranging pause on federal grants and loans issued by the Trump administration. The funding freeze could affect the billions of dollars Minnesota gets each year from the federal government while agencies do an overview of whether taxpayer resources are being used to “advance Marxist equity,

A Trump administration spending freeze directly imperils $1.9 billion in monthly federal spending in Minnesota, nearly $23 billion annually, according to an estimate from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. “Donald Trump’s reckless action cut off funding to law enforcement,

Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan and Attorney General Keith Ellison speak out against President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal funding