A federal judge in New York has ruled against 16 states that demanded the Trump administration be forced to reinstate hundreds of millions in grant funding canceled by the National Science Foundation starting in April.

By May, the list had grown to more than $1 billion in canceled project funding. The states filed the lawsuit to recover the money after congressional Democrats wrote to the NSF and demanded answers about what the minority members of the House Science Committee described as “political” actions conducted by “an Administration that is unparalleled in its hostility to American science.”

The New York Times reported that the Friday decision in the case by U.S. District Court Judge John Cronan in Manhattan indicated the primary reason for not accepting the merits of the case was that a suit demanding monetary damages from the federal government has to be filed with the Court of Federal Claims in Washington.

Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.