The Healey administration is condemning the Trump administration’s decision to withhold billions in congressionally approved funding for the nation’s schools, about $108 million of which was due to be in the Bay State’s coffers on July 1.

The governor’s office says the hold on more than $6 billion in education funding appropriated by Congress is “unprecedented,” and that the absence of the Commonwealth’s cut will be felt by students and school districts statewide.

“Every day that goes by without this education funding hurts children, educators, communities and our economy,” Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement shared first with the Herald. “Without this funding, districts are going to be forced to lay off staff, delay or cancel programs and services, and disrupt learning. Our schools were promised this funding, and the Trump Administration needs to deliver it.”

Attorney General Andrea Campbell told the Herald on Thursday that she will take legal action if the Department of Education does not swiftly reverse the decision.

“The Trump Administration’s decision to withhold billions of dollars in funding is further proof that it does not care about our children, families, or schools. If the Trump Administration does not act immediately to fulfill their legal obligations to our schools, we will see them in court,” Campbell said.

The federal Office of Management and Budget said in a statement on Wednesday that the funds are being held for review to ensure they are in compliance with the Trump Administration’s policies against using federal dollars to support LGBTQ initiatives or for the education of undocumented migrant students.

Such spending, according to OMB, is nakedly political.

“Many of these grant programs have been grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda,” the Office of Management and Budget said.

According to the governors office, the funding is used for a wide variety of school functions, including “summer and after school programs, behavioral and mental health support, bullying prevention and intervention, reducing chronic absenteeism, buying materials and supplies for classrooms, and more.”

Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler said the actions of the federal government are creating “chaos” that is hurting Bay State students. It’s also, he said, outside the power of the presidency.

“Donald Trump does not get to unilaterally decide which students and schools are deserving of federal support. Congress appropriated these funds, and they need to be issued to states,” he said.

According to Education Week magazine, state education departments were informed through an unsigned email sent on Monday that the Trump Administration is currently reviewing five programs for compliance.

The feds are reviewing $375 million in funding from the federal 60-year-old Migrant Education Program, $2.2 billion for teacher professional development paid for by the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants program, $890 million from the English Language Acquisition State Grants program for non-native English speakers, $1.3 billion from the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program block grants, and $1.4 billion from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program to fund afterschool offerings.

The Administration apparently also informed congressional staffers on Tuesday that they would not send out $729 million in adult literacy and basic education programs, according to the education magazine.

The White House’s 2026 budget proposal aims to zero out those programs entirely, though they were funded at those levels in fiscal 2025 and expected to be delivered at the start of this fiscal year — on Tuesday.

All of the withheld funding was signed into law by President Donald Trump this past spring, after Congress passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the end of fiscal 2025.

Herald wire service contributed.