Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday said he is taking expanded legal action against the Trump administration for the president’s “widespread campaign of retribution to punish Colorado.”
Weiser announced in a news conference that he updated a lawsuit the state originally filed against the Trump administration in October over plans to move U.S. Space Command to Alabama from Colorado Springs. He said the lawsuit was amended Thursday and urged people to “stay tuned” for further legal actions, reacting to “an array of threatened and actual punishments.”
“The only response is to fight back and to defend your principles, because if you try to give in or make nice with a bully, that only makes you vulnerable to more bullying, and you will find additional unreasonable demands,” Weiser said. “You will never make peace, and you will lose your moral compass and your dignity.”
Weiser said President Donald Trump does not like Colorado’s mail-in ballot system or its prosecution of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nine-year state prison sentence for orchestrating a breach of her county’s election system as part of a failed attempt to uncover voter fraud.
Gov. Jared Polis received three letters Tuesday from the Administration for Children and Families under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notifying him that the federal government was withholding funds for Colorado’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, the Social Services Block Grant program and the Child Care and Development Fund.
The letters said the federal government is “rooting out fraud” and that the administration “has reason to believe” that Colorado is “illicitly providing illegal aliens” with benefits “intended for American citizens and lawful permanent residents.” State officials told The Colorado Sun that TANF recipients must have U.S. citizenship or a green card or must be a refugee placed in the state by the Office of New Americans. Immigrants living in the United States without permission also do not qualify for the state’s child care assistance program.
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