President Donald Trump said he would hold off on invoking the Insurrection Act after previously threatening to use the law to deploy US military troops in Minnesota.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from withholding $80 million to administer Minnesota's food stamp program while the state reviews the eligibility of 100,000 households amid claims of widespread fraud.

President Donald Trump vowed "day of reckoning" for Minnesota as more ICE agents head to Minneapolis amid fraud crackdown.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any states that are home to local governments resisting his administration’s immigration policies, expanding on previous threats to cut off resources to the so-called sanctuary cities themselves.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked a scandal around the theft of federal funds intended for social-welfare programs in Minnesota as a rationale for sending thousands of immigration enforcement agents into the Midwest state.

The Trump administration’s efforts to investigate Renee Good and others around her, and not the ICE officer who shot her in Minneapolis, is wreaking havoc on the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, which is leading the probe.

Breaking: Prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis resigned after the Justice Department’s demands to investigate the widow of Renée Good, who was killed last week by a federal agent.