Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles
As left-leaning and moderate donors and foundations alike have scrambled to respond to the Trump agenda, they’ve typically done so through the work of NGOs.
Michael Bloomberg’s taken some different angles so far, in that he’s sought to fortify other government entities to compensate for or push back against damage done by a federal government in crisis. The biggest example has been Bloomberg’s $200 million program to elevate mayors as problem solvers and national leaders.
Now, Bloomberg Philanthropies is turning to a different avenue, this one an even more explicit shot at the administration, by funding support for states fighting the federal government, likely through lawsuits, over the gutting of environmental regulations. . .