Domestic violence and sexual assault organizations sue Trump administration over funding restrictions
Source: NBC News
July 21, 2025, 5:09 PM EDT
More than 20 nonprofit organizations that receive federal grants to serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and those experiencing homelessness, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration over new funding requirements.
The organizations — which are spread across more than a dozen states and include Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Violence Free Minnesota — allege the changes at the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) “have thrown a wrench” in their “life-saving work.” Some of the plaintiffs, according to the suit, stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, states that the new restrictions do not enable the plaintiffs to better serve vulnerable members of society and instead “seek to advance the Administration’s wholly unrelated ideological goals—including to end ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility,’ deny transgender people’s identities, and cut off access to abortion resources and referrals.”
In March, for example, HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced in a post on social media that the department would impose new conditions on funds distributed through its Continuum of Care program, which is designed to end homelessness. The conditions cite several executive orders President Donald Trump issued during the first weeks of his presidency, including that the government will only legally recognize two, unchangeable sexes; deem diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government “illegal”; and end “forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/domestic-violence-sexual-assault-organizations-sue-trump-administratio-rcna220074
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/25-cv-342-ECF-No.-1-Complaint.pdf
This is new. This is against HHS.
REFERENCE (earlier suit against DOJ) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143480018
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