#federal-funding-cuts

#federal-funding-cuts

The Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, known in California as Farms Together, pays farmers fair market prices to supply fresh foods directly to local food banks. Since the program launched in January 2024, it has supported 800 farms statewide and fed more than 2 million Californians. It's estimated that LFPA has brought more than $88 million to the California economy, supporting small and mid-size farmers.

My career as an agronomist required me to take scientific research and apply that knowledge, to assist farmers by helping them solve problems and increase their farms profitability. The ag industry relies on research to continue to solve the ever-changing problems that farmers face. Today my farm business employs management practices that have come directly from the Lacombe Research and Development Centre, this has improved my farms resilience and profitability.

The Trump administration has reportedly slashed U.S. federal funding for mental health and addition programs, a move that experts say will exacerbate the country's already acute drug crisis. The loss could total some $2 billion in grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), NPR reported, citing unnamed sources. But the extent of the cuts has not been verified. The number of grants canceled could be as high as 2,800, according to STAT.

Our BLM partners were finding out at the same moment,

If you are reading this from outside the U.S., you may have already seen the videos. Clouds rolling over the Grand Canyon. Kids screaming down roller coasters. Snowboarders gliding through white forests. America's latest tourism campaign, "America the Beautiful," is out, and it is selling the American dream. But will tourists buy it? According to a May 2025 report from the World Travel and Tourism Council,

Before Sergio Ardila joined the board of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, he was one of its clients. Ardila, who describes himself as a recovering addict, attended his first Narcotics Anonymous meeting at the center in 2022, through its Rainbow Recovery program, and received rental assistance from the organization during a period of unemployment. "My story with the center is very personal," Ardila said. "I got involved to give back what the center has given."

As the federal government shutdown drags on, the Trump administration has doubled down on a tactic of dubious legality that it has been pursuing since January: cancelling federal funding for already congressionally approved projects in blue cities and states. Back in the summer, the administration pulled $4 billion from the California high speed rail project. It followed up a month later by withdrawing another $175 million from the project.

This article lists many of the grants already earmarked for Bay Area projects, such as clean energy, higher education, infrastructure and job training, that have been cut by the Republicans' government under the leadership of our petulant, thin-skinned president. If he decides you're his enemy for whatever imagined or perceived offense, he will do whatever he can to hurt you. As Rep. Lateefah Simon said, Political retribution against Democratic districts is the point.

Bay Area universities lost more than $2 million in funds after the Trump administration announced it was rerouting money meant for minority-serving institutions to charter schools and other educational programs, an analysis by Bay Area News Group has revealed. In September, the Department of Education announced it was ending $350 million in discretionary funding for several minority-serving grant programs, alleging the programs were "racially discriminatory" because qualifying schools must maintain a percentage of minority students in their total student enrollment.

Many Massachusetts residents are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage, SNAP benefits, and more under the cuts. Massachusetts officials launched a new online dashboard this week designed to clearly show how federal funding cuts are negatively impacting Massachusetts under the Trump administration. All told, the state has lost about $3.7 billion due to President Trump and a Congress beholden to him, according to the dashboard.

The Trump administration's plan to cancel billions of dollars for energy projects following the US government shutdown includes an initiative to upgrade electric transmission lines in California. A consortium that included the California Energy Commission and Southern California Edison was awarded a federal grant of $600 million for the upgrade last year, which was to allow faster access to clean energy. But that project - which was slated to improve 100 miles of transmission lines - will have its funding cut, according to a list from the Department of Energy.

The MTA's Second Avenue subway extension into East Harlem and the Gateway program's new Hudson River train tunnels are both subject to cuts, U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said in a post on X. The feds agreed to a $3.4 billion grant under former President Joe Biden to help fund the subway extension, covering nearly half of its projected $7.7 billion cost.

The Trump administration can try to blackmail us, they can try to starve our schools of funding, but we will not cower or bend before them, said Councilmember Tiffany Caban, who co-chairs the LGBTQIA+ Caucus. The Trump administration sent letters demanding that New York City and other school districts rescind policies protecting transgender individuals by Sept. 23. When that deadline came and went, the White House said it would cut about $36 million in total funding for Magnet Schools Assistance Program funding in New York City alone, though cuts were also made to school districts in Chicago, Illinois, and Fairfax, Virginia.

The Trump administration's efforts to reshape federal cultural institutions as part of a broader attack on what the president characterizes as "woke" or diversity, equity, and inclusion policies have left many Indigenous arts and culture institutions in a challenging position, according to leaders at those institutions as well as culture workers and advocates who spoke to Truthout. Institutions offering Indigenous arts and culture programming,

UC president James B. Milliken wrote a letter to dozens of local elected officials Tuesday explaining that "the stakes are high and the risks are very real." The system's 10 institutions could lose billions of dollars in aid, forcing its leaders to make tough calls about staffing, the continuation of certain academic programs and more, he said. President Trump has already frozen more than $500 million in grants at UCLA, allegedly because the Justice Department accused the university of violating Jewish students' civil rights.

UC "receives over $17 billion per year from the federal government - $9.9 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding, $5.7 billion in research funding, and $1.9 billion in student financial aid per year," Milliken wrote in the letter addressed to Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), chair of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. If such funds were lost, Milliken wrote, "we would need at least $4-5 billion per year to minimize the damage."

In a letter sent to council members Wednesday, Chow said the city will have to come up with an additional $107 million this year to continue to provide emergency shelter to refugee claimants at its current level, after the federal government offered just 26 per cent of the funding the city requested through the Interim Housing Assistance Program (IHAP) for 2025.

"BRAVE Bay Area, one of the nation's first rape crisis centers, is closing its doors in September because of what organizers described as insurmountable financial challenges and understaffing."

Maryrose Weatherton's NSF grant was terminated due to the project's focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, reflecting a broader trend under the Trump administration's funding priorities.

"I've been involved in many public budget processes... this time is the most frustrating that I have ever experienced," said State. Sen. Roger Niello, (R) Roseville.