In a joint statement, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan accused the Trump administration of playing politics and said withholding federal funds would be illegal.

Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer and champion of women's rights, she became the high court's second female justice in 1993.

"My Administration will not allow Federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones," said the memo, which was released by the White House.

Cuomo said late Friday he'd sign — yet temporarily tweak — legislation that calls for notifying voters about such problems and provides for fixing them.

Unlike other states, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there, which could add thousands more to the count.

The Democrat was particularly critical of Trump's Saturday announcement that states must pay part of $400 weekly unemployment insurance benefits.

There were at least 646 people hospitalized in the state on Friday, a new low since March 18 and down slightly from the previous day, the Democratic governor said in a statement.

The directive was intended to help free up hospital beds for the sickest patients as cases surged.

Infections are on the rise in 39 states, according to a Reuters tally, and 16 states have posted record daily case counts in July.

While Canada doesn't have the same policies as many U.S. police forces, it struggles with its own issues, one expert said.