BOSTON — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from slashing counterterrorism funding for Massachusetts and other Democratic-led states deemed uncooperative with federal immigration enforcement.

The ruling by U.S. District Court judge Mary S. McElroy in Rhode Island, issued late Tuesday, puts on hold the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to cut more than $233 million in funding allocated to states from the Homeland Security Grant Program, which was approved by Congress in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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