Showing posts with label federal funding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal funding. Show all posts
Friday, July 17, 2026
The Only Research Center For Disabled Parents Is Losing Federal Funding – Mother Jones
In May, the White House Office of Management and Budget, led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, released a proposal that, if finalized, would have the federal government arbitrarily terminate grants and involve political appointees more deeply in the grantmaking process…
Monday, July 13, 2026
Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up?
It appears that the endgame of the Trump administration’s attacks on science and the research funding ecosystem is similar: grant freezes and administrative disarray at federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), new layers of project review by political appointees hunting for forbidden keywords such as “disparity” and “marginalized”, and proposed new restrictions to make international collaboration difficult or impossible all point towards a world where it’s just too onerous to do federally-funded scientific research. Is the goal to make scientists simply give up on the endeavor?…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/11/trump-administration-scientists-rules
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Judge says Trump violated free speech when he ordered defunding of NPR : NPR
The order "singles out two speakers and, on the basis of their speech, bars them from all federally funded programs," Moss, who was nominated by President Barack Obama, wrote. "It does so, moreover, without regard to whether the federal funds are used to pay for the nationwide interconnection systems, which serve as the technological backbones of public radio and television; to provide safety and security for journalists working in war zones; to support the emergency broadcast system; or to produce or distribute music, children's or other educational programming, or documentaries."
"It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch," Moss said…
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768399/npr-pbs-trump-federal-funding
Judge blocks Trump's executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR | PBS News
"As the Court expressly recognized, the First Amendment draws a line, which the government may not cross, at efforts to use government power — including the power of the purse — 'to punish or suppress disfavored expression' by others," Boutrous said in a statement. "The Executive Order crossed that line."…
Friday, January 23, 2026
Trump administration targets 14 blue states, DC with federal funding review - POLITICO
The Trump administration this week ordered a review of federal funding for 14 Democratic states and Washington, D.C., the latest step in the administration's effort to target states that do not cooperate with the administration…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/trump-administration-federal-funding-blue-states-00741440
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Trump tells GOP it’s time to ‘own’ health care while urging ‘flexibility’ on abortion restrictions - POLITICO
At the end of a winding, nearly 90-minute speech to the House GOP conference, which Trump touted as a "roadmap" to winning the midterm elections, he demanded Republicans show flexibility on their long-standing stance against the use of federal dollars to pay for abortion, a call that prompted swift blowback. He also asked them to enact an insurance plan that sends dollars directly to consumers instead of insurance companies and "own" in-vitro fertilization policy.
And he set the stakes: winning the midterms and avoiding a third impeachment...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/trump-health-abortion-restrictions-hyde-00712507
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Inside Congress Live
Negotiators have finalized a compromise on the Energy-Water, Commerce-Justice-Science and Interior-Environment spending measures...
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Trump administration freezes childcare funding to Minnesota in wake of fraud scheme allegations
The senior health official credited the rightwing influencer Nick Shirley, who posted video of himself confronting workers at day care centers operated by Somali Americans in Minneapolis last week. Shirley's video, which was widely viewed online, has been criticized for falsely presenting as new revelations allegations of fraud schemes that were extensively reported on in the local and national media during the Biden administration…
"This is Trump's long game," Walz wrote on social media in response to the announcement from O'Neill, "We've spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It's a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along. He's politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans."…
Monday, August 11, 2025
Trump administration threatens to strip Harvard University of lucrative patents
White House escalates offensive on Ivy League university by calling for review of federally funded research…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/trump-administration-harvard-patent-review
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
NPR lawsuit aims to strike a blow for press freedom against Trump’s attacks | US news | The Guardian
Levinson wrote: "The Trump administration isn't targeting NPR because it covers political news. To the contrary; the administration appears to have explicitly admitted that it's targeting NPR because of what Trump considers to be its bias as it covers political news. NPR's lawsuit argues that, therefore, Trump's executive order is 'textbook retaliation and viewpoint-based discrimination.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/npr-lawsuit-trump-war-on-media
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
Harvard balked at reports that Trump team mistakenly sent demands - The Washington Post
"Even assuming the Administration now wishes to take back its litany of breathtakingly intrusive demands," the university said in its statement, "it appears to have doubled down on those demands through its deeds in recent days.
"Actions speak louder than words."…
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Harvard pushes back against Trump administration's demands for changes - The Washington Post
"No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,"...
Thursday, April 3, 2025
IMLS staff put on administrative leave : NPR
… "without this core federal funding for state libraries, museums, and archives, we risk losing critical programs and services in every state."…
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
Friday, March 28, 2025
Mental health and addiction funding on the federal chopping block : NPR
"DOGE is now actively cutting funding aimed at reducing overdose deaths by clawing back money from states," wrote Regina LaBelle, an expert on drug policy at Georgetown University who served in the Biden administration in a post on social media. "With overdose deaths still exceeding 80,000 annually, is DOGE declaring victory?"…
"Senselessly ripping away this funding Congress provided will undermine our state's ability to protect families from infectious diseases like measles and bird flu and to help people get the mental health care and substance use treatment they need," said U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington state, in a statement….
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342368/addiction-trump-mental-health-funding
Donald Trump says NPR, PBS should be defunded 'immediately'
A new Pew Research Center study out this week found a plurality of Americans say the federal government should continue to fund public broadcasters. The same survey found 32 percent of Democrats regularly get news from NPR, compared with 9 percent of Republicans...
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5217113-donald-trump-npr-pbs-defund/
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene battles NPR and PBS leaders in House hearing - The Washington Post
"If shame [were] still a thing, this hearing would be shameful," Lynch said...
Conservatives push to cut extra Medicaid payments to hospitals
"Let's be clear: provider taxes and state directed payments provide the means to offset the crippling underpayment by Medicaid for critical care that meets the medical needs of so many kids, mothers, disabled, and seniors," Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, said in a statement to Axios.
Taking federal money out of the Medicaid system may ultimately force hospitals to cut back services or staff, affecting beneficiaries' access to care, said Megan Cundari, senior director of federal relations for the American Hospital Association…
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/congress-medicaid-payments-hospitals-states
Monday, March 24, 2025
Trump demands Maine governor apologize — or the state will face consequences - POLITICO
"While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor's strong, but totally incorrect, statement about men playing in women's sports while at the White House House Governor's Conference, we have not heard from the Governor herself, and she is the one that matters in such cases," Trump wrote. "Therefore, we need a full throated apology from the Governor herself, and a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the Federal Government again, before this case can be settled."…
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