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The cuts affected all 50 states and the District of Columbia,
with health, nutrition, the environment and disaster relief
making up the largest share of cuts, the States United Democracy
Center and Grant Witness organization found.
Among the grants that were eliminated, frozen or delayed were
ones related to maternal health in Michigan, education research
in Mississippi and assistance to minority farmers in Iowa, the
researchers found. California, Texas, New York, Illinois and
North Carolina saw the highest amounts of interrupted grant
money. The tracking tool is called Lost Funds.
“By bringing thousands of funding disruptions from the Trump
administration together in a publicly accessible, verified
database, Lost Funds puts the magnitude of their impact on full
display,” Scott Delaney, co-founder of Grant Witness, said in a
statement.
The $177 billion finding represents nearly 10% of federal
discretionary spending, the groups said.
The tracker’s organizers said the disrupted grants were beyond
the kind of cuts that typically happen when administrations
change.
“Lost Funds shows the extraordinary scale and real human impact
of these disruptions, and how states are once again on the front
lines protecting their residents,” said Kelly Rader, States
United Democracy Center’s research director.
In some cases, courts have ruled against the administration’s
grant funding cuts.
The new tool, which is being made available for public use,
relies on data from USASpending.gov, an open data source of
federal spending information, according to the groups’
methodology. They said the tracker would be updated regularly as
the administration takes new action and lawsuits move through
the courts.
States United bills itself as a nonpartisan group dedicated to
the rule of law and free, fair, secure elections. It was
cofounded by Norm Eisen, an attorney who has been involved in
prominent lawsuits against the Trump administration, including
over the Kennedy Center. Eisen left the States United center in
2024.
Grant Witness is a group of scientists, researchers and
attorneys who document how funding is changing under President
Donald Trump's administration.
A message seeking comment on the analysis was sent to the White
House.
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