Governor Josh Shapiro, D-PA., Joined 15 states and Washington, DC, to challenge the education department of President Donald Trump to revoke millions in Pandemic-Ire education funds for his states.
Shapiro and the group of general prosecutors throughout the country filed a complaint before the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and the Department of Education, challenging the termination of financing of the federal government assigned to “combat the devastating and in which they face.”
The complaint alleges that the financing was assigned until March 2026, and the states were informed on March 28 “without prior notice or warning” that the Department of Education had “terminated extensions of time to liquidate the funds of previous subsidies.” The complaint says that the funds in question were assigned by Congress using a Pandemic-Ire law.
“Each student of Pennsylvania deserves the freedom to draw their own course and the opportunity to success. I am taking measures to
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Governor Josh Shapiro, D-Penn., Challenges the Department of Education of President Donald Trump for allegedly revoking $ 185 million in education funds of the Pandemic era for Pennsylvania. (AP images)
Shapiro said that the $ 185 million in federal funds “Oed to Pennsylvania” support academic and mental health programs, implement and modernizes new technologies and provides improvements in infrastructure in schools.
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The governor of Pennsylvania argued that school districts and education agencies have already spent the assigned money, so canceling Pennsylvania taxpayers of $ 185 million to the cancellation of $ 185 million to withdraw the account of the projects that are already underway.
The complaint is signed by the General Prosecutors of Arizona, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, DCC
State leaders claim that the Department of Education could not rescind their federal funds due to the “end of the pandemic”, because the pandemic had already ended when the financing extension was granted, and argue that they were not limited to specific COVID-19.
The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, speaks on the 3rd of the National Democratic Convention at the United Center in Chicago on August 21, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Madi Biedermann, spokesman for the Department of Education, told Fox News Digital in a statement: “Covid is over. The states and school districts can no longer say that they are spending their emergency pandemic funds in ‘Covid relief’ abe ne are are
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The recession in the financing of federal education related to the pandemic follows Trump compliance with a key campaign promise of 2024 to dismantle the Department of Education. Trump signed an executive order last month ordering McMahon to close the department and return the educational authority to the states, a republican idea often floated by the presidential applicants, but first implemented in the term per term.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, talks to the White House journalists in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Shapiro has trusted the second mandate of the judicial system to unlock federal funds for Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, the governor of Pennsylvania joined 22 states and Washington, DC, in a lawsuit against Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services to cancel public health subsidies that avoid the propagation of infectious diseases.
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Shapiro also fed the Trump administration on February 13, challenging the alleged freezing of Trump’s “illegal” federal funds. Shortly after, Shapiro celebrated that the $ 2.1 billion in federal funds did not have the leg and restoration to Pennsylvania after their demand and direct confrontation with the Trump administration.