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Girls read an Amelia Be­delia book dur­ing the East Prov­i­dence Boys and Girls Club Sum­mer Camp at Em­ma G. Whitek­n­act El­e­men­tary School on Thurs­day, Ju­ly 10, 2025, in Prov­i­dence R.I. (AP Pho­to/So­phie Park)

More than 20 states have sued Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion over bil­lions of dol­lars in frozen fund­ing for af­ter-school and sum­mer pro­grams and oth­er pro­grams.

Aiden Cazares is one of 1.4 mil­lion chil­dren and teenagers around the coun­try who have been at­tend­ing af­ter-school and sum­mer pro­gram­ming at a Boys & Girls Club, the YM­CA or a pub­lic school for free thanks to fed­er­al tax­pay­ers. Con­gress set aside mon­ey for the pro­grams to pro­vide aca­d­e­m­ic sup­port, en­rich­ment and child care to most­ly low-in­come fam­i­lies, but Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion re­cent­ly froze the fund­ing.