​Trump's budget chief brazenly broke the law to punish blue states: judge

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has found that President Donald Trump's top budget official violated the Constitution by terminating environmental grants during the federal government shutdown, but exclusively to states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Judge Amit Mehta issued the ruling on Monday, siding with a group of companies and organizations that were awarded these grants before having them terminated by Trump's Department of Energy. Office of Management and...