OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants - Live Updates - POLITICO

“That really sounds to me like you all are trying to turn the entire federal government into this one big slush fund to reward those aligned with the administration and punish everyone else,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the Senate’s top Democratic appropriator, told Duncan on Tuesday, during his first confirmation hearing before the Budget Committee…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/17/congress/omb-pick-talks-grant-shakeup-00964909

 

The Post exposed this farmer’s struggle and then the USDA called - The Washington Post

Dozens of farmers The Post interviewed, including many who said they voted for Trump, have been confounded by his administration's unwillingness to endorse a program so popular among key constituents. Few threats to their livelihoods are more existential than the chronic labor shortage. At least a dozen American workers quit on Bennett before he turned to H-2A. Since 2008, Padilla estimated she'd lost nearly 50, costing her an average of $20,000 a year in wasted training...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/07/31/farmers-usda-federal-grants-trump/

DOGE takes control of federal grants website - The Washington Post

A DOGE engineer removed users' access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/

Judge hammers EPA over lack of proof of wrongdoing in terminating $20B in climate grants - POLITICO

Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who weeks ago ordered the cash be kept in Citibank's accounts for the time being, pressed a Justice Department attorney to explain EPA's reasoning for ending the grants last month.  

"Here we are, weeks in, and you're still unable to proffer me any information with regard to any kind of investigation or malfeasance," Chutkan said during a three-hour hearing...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/judge-hammers-epas-terminating-20b-climate-grants-00267004

 

These Two Letters Explain Why Democrats Were Furious With Ryan Zinke This Week - Mother Jones

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has not attempted to acquire a Chik-fil-A franchise for his wife, asked personal aides to buy a used mattress, or spent $1,560 on 12 fancy pens as has EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, who is the subject of 12 separate investigations. But Democrats have not ignored some questionable behavior in Zinke's agency and described some of their concerns in a recent pair of open letters. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/these-two-letters-explain-why-democrats-were-furious-with-ryan-zinke-this-week/