Trump reviews slowed screwworm response, former officials say - POLITICO

"Devastating" staffing cuts and spending reviews at USDA constrained the government’s response to the spread of a flesh-eating pest that threatens livestock...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/17/trump-reviews-slowed-screwworm-response-00964448

US lawmakers fight Trump cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’

Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, joins Democrats in bid to stop dismantling of Ocean Observatories Initiative…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/ocean-monitoring-cuts-trump

 

US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/27/us-israel-war-on-iran-driving-historic-levels-of-global-hunger-un-says

 

Trump and Elon Musk Crushed USAID. Hunger and Violence Followed. – Mother Jones

“Who in their right mind would retract healthcare and food so abruptly?”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trump-elon-musk-usaid-consequences-hunger-violence-onflict-science-paper-study/

 

Collins pushes back on Trump’s plan to cut health research funding - Live Updates - POLITICO

The Maine Republican pressed Jay Bhattacharya at an Appropriations Health Subcommittee hearing on the White House proposal, which she said would “undermine the foundation of our nation’s global leadership in biomedical research and technological innovation.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/21/congress/collins-push-back-nih-cuts-00932187

 

Judges plead to get their rundown buildings fixed

Complaints about the judiciary's federal landlord reached a fever pitch after last year's DOGE cuts.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/24/congress/congress-pressed-on-courthouses-00795767 

 

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-science-funding-cuts

 

Funding slashed for programs combating child sex trafficking

Federal prosecutors are now operating under new "austerity" measures, put into place by the justice department, creating roadblocks to prosecuting alleged child predators, sources said…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/justice-department-cuts-child-sex-trafficking

 

Trump’s USDA Is Hiding the Data on Food Stamp Cuts – Mother Jones

Millions of adults ages of 55 to 64 may now be locked out of the program if they're not able to work—and in a one-two punch of attacks on federal services, the USDA has terminated its annual food insecurity survey, making it impossible to know just how devastating an impact Trump's backdoor SNAP cuts will have on aging adults who are unable to get exemptions from their state... 

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01/trump-rollins-usda-snap-food-insecurity/ 

 

HHS cuts millions of dollars of funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M7Px9BQ-BY4

 

State Senate votes to undo cancelation of $645M for multiyear projects

"They changed the rules midstream. It's a bad fiscal policy and terrible governance," Senate Appropriations Chair Sarah Anthony (D-Lansing) said. 

Her minority vice chair, Jon Bumstead (R-Muskegon), said he felt the state needed to stand by the promises it made in the budget. 

"When I signed that, I represent our caucus and our leadership. And, to me, a person is only as good as their word," Bumstead said...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2025-12-17/michigan-senate-votes-to-restore-hundreds-of-millions-in-state-funding-canceled-by-gop-led-committee 

 

After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation — ProPublica

They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn't fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Young men took to the streets in protests, some of which devolved into violent riots. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing the camp by foot and in overcramped cars, threatening a new migration crisis on the continent. They said they'd rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving in Kakuma...

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths 

 

Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut

"These funding cuts have clear and immediate consequences […] women giving birth without skilled care, people living with HIV unable to access testing and treatment to stay alive, and survivors of violence being turned away from the only clinic in their area," said Alvaro Bermejo, director general of IPPF, the world's largest network for sexual and reproductive health…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/16/figures-us-funding-cuts-family-planning-clinics-shut-anti-rights

 

‘We’re back at stage one’: Trump cuts rock Louisiana town plagued by gun violence

Her plans ground to a halt in April of this year, shortly after Donald Trump returned to the White House and embarked on a controversial campaign of slashing government spending. His justice department cancelled $800m in funding meant for groups combating gun violence, sexual assault, hate crimes and related issues nationwide, which included the grant Daniels received. Equal Justice USA lost so much funding that, after more than three decades pursuing criminal justice reform, it was forced to close…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/15/bogalusa-louisiana-trump-gun-violence

 

‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country - POLITICO

"You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, and water restoration, and healthy forests," Zink said. "People in Washington, D.C., on the West Coast, East Coast — they don't understand what that means to us out here."…

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/15/doge-cuts-donald-trump-montana-00681695 

 

 

Judge gives Trump admin a basic sex ed lesson while rebuking its planned funding cuts

"The school year has already started, the programs are in place, the hiring has been done and right now you have the states caught in a catch-22," U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken told Justice Department attorney Susanne Luse. "You're intervening with a set of conditions that there isn't a body or document or set of hearings that support that interjection. It looks pretty arbitrary and capricious."… "

Is it possible that a trans youth can get pregnant? Is it possible that individuals who are nonbinary can get STIs [sexually transmitted infections]? Is it possible that any and all of those diverse youth are in the position where, when they don't have broad information about risks of sex, can become self-harming, suicidal or drug-affected or drug-using?" Aiken asked, followed by an explanation that she served full-time as a juvenile judge before she was appointed to the federal bench…

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-sex-ed-funding-cuts-grants-transgender-rcna239231

 

Federal workers push for Democrats to try to rein in Trump admin

Restore research and funding where cuts have put public health and safety at risk. 

Stop illegal impoundments, in which the White House refuses to spend money appropriated by Congress. 

Reinstate employees who have been fired without cause and restore federal workers' union rights...

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/18/trump-government-shutdown-federal-workers

Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation

"The reality is that perpetrators will go free" and "international crimes will continue", said Beth Van Schaack, ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice during the Biden administration. "It will take years to rebuild the expertise in our law enforcement and diplomatic corps."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/trump-human-trafficking-programs-cut

 

Trump unlawfully cancelled $2.2bn in Harvard research grants, judge rules

Decision marks major victory for school after White House accused it of not addressing harassment of Jewish students…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/trump-administration-harvard-funding-cut

 

Trump administration cuts grants for child care on college campuses - The Washington Post

The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at over a dozen colleges, objecting to child care providers teaching young children about gender and race...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/29/education-department-child-care-college/