A group of U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s administration from placing new restrictions on

more than $3 billion in grant funding used to provide permanent housing and other services to homeless people.

Officials from 20 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., said changes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced to its Continuum of Care program this month violate federal law and are illegally targeted at LGBTQ people and other communities that are not aligned with the Trump administration’s policy priorities, in the lawsuit in Rhode Island federal court.

The lawsuit seeks to block HUD from placing new conditions on receiving the grants, including a cap on the amount of funding that can be used for permanen

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