The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel withdrew Clinton-era guidance that read the same welfare-law reporting rule far more narrowly, and now says states must report welfare applicants who lack permanent legal status.
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The administration said states that do not hand over the reports could lose federal money
Explicitly attributed to the administration; it is a stated enforcement threat rather than an executed action, and the funding-condition question is contested per the CRS analysis of §§1373 and 1644 litigation.