{"id":258863,"date":"2026-08-04T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258863\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:52:21","slug":"gov-josh-shapiro-is-suing-trump-admin-to-prevent-them-from-misusing-data-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258863\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Josh Shapiro is suing Trump admin. to prevent them from misusing data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/video-shows-backdrop-crashing-down-mid-speech-nearly-smacking-gov-shapiro-others-pennsylvania-benjamin-franklin-betsy-ross-america250-celebration-united-states-of-america-concert-series-events-fourth-of-july-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro<\/a> announced Monday that he would be suing the Trump administration in order to protect personal information of Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBREAKING: I\u2019m suing the Trump Administration to prevent them from misusing the private, personal information of Pennsylvanians who receive temporary assistance benefits from our Commonwealth,\u201d he wrote on the social media platform, X.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the president could not seize information from Pennsylvania residents unlawfully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennsylvanians entrust our Administration to protect their private information when they apply for services \u2014 we\u2019re not going to let the President seize your information for his own purposes,\u201d Shapiro continued.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro has not elaborated on what specifically Trump has done regarding seizing information, but he has sued the administration in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Shapiro sued the Trump administration for what he described as an \u201cillegal effort\u201d to hold homeland security money hostage to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews4.com\/news\/nation-world\/shapiro-sues-trump-administration-amid-unconstitutional-election-policy-battle-pa-pennsylvania-donald-trump-election-integrity-josh-shapiro-lawsuit-fema-dhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">control elections in Pennsylvania.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump Administration is holding critical funding for homeland security and disaster response hostage in their latest attempt to take over our elections and perpetuate baseless conspiracy theories,\u201d Shapiro said in a statement. \u201cWithholding this funding will make our communities less safe and would be dangerous under any circumstance, but doing this in an attempt to undermine states\u2019 authority over elections is reckless and unconstitutional. I\u2019m going to court to protect the people of Pennsylvania from this brazen attempt to withhold vital resources from our law enforcement officers and first responders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Monday that he would be suing the Trump administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-258863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}