#federal-funding-cuts

#federal-funding-cuts

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.

PBS's chief executive told public television officials Thursday that it was cutting about 15 percent of its jobs due to the move by Republicans in Congress to eliminate all federal funding for public broadcasting. Thirty-four PBS staffers were notified Thursday that their positions were being cut. Taken with the loss of a longstanding federal grant for an educational initiative earlier this summer, and the elimination of about three dozen other vacant positions, PBS will have lost more than 100 jobs in all.

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."

The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. Funding for projects in 11 states was rescinded, including $435 million for a floating wind farm in Northern California and $47 million to boost an offshore wind project in Maryland that the Interior Department has pledged to cancel.

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.

"Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans. Both NPR and PBS receive money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent nonprofit corporation which Congress created in 1967 to receive and distribute federal money to public broadcasters."

"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.

I believe it is critical that we fully fund Sunnyvale Community Services, they are a lifeline to our community, they are the frontline social safety net here.

This year, before the researchers could uncover what exactly had killed the bees, the Trump administration's sweeping federal funding cuts scrambled the operation.

"I wanted you to hear each and every name of every staff member and their work and their position, because as of this moment, in this second right now, after this payroll, we got work to do."

We don't want the federal government to dictate to us what services get cut, Williams told The Mercury News.

"While Trump and his allies have suggested universities can use their endowments to fund research, officials at Johns Hopkins said that's not so easy."

"The Peraltas were granted 45,000 acres of East Bay land including what is now Oakland, Berkeley and parts of San Leandro. They brought with them animals and food that transformed this region."

Santa Clara County officials are anticipating significant cuts to housing voucher programs due to federal funding issues, which could affect thousands of low-income residents.

Los Angeles County is grappling with a severe financial crisis due to a combination of federal funding cuts, costly sex-abuse settlements, and devastating wildfires.