8 entries in the ledger
The White House announced Sept. 26, 2026 that it would cancel $810 million in congressionally approved funding through a "pocket rescission," a maneuver that sends Congress a rescission request so close to the fiscal...
Congress appropriated $41 million this year for the CDC’s Alzheimer’s disease program and $246 million for its Office on Smoking and Health, but no one is staffing either, the Associated Press reported. The same is true...
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Aug. 4, 2026, that the Environmental Protection Agency may not terminate or claw back roughly $20 billion in unspent clean-energy grants awarded to nonprofit...
In a July 15, 2026 court filing in a class action over canceled clean-energy awards, an Energy Department lawyer wrote that 284 terminated grants were not cut for "any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or...
On January 6, 2026, the Trump administration paused roughly $10 billion in federal child care and family assistance funding to five Democratic-led states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. The...
On October 1, 2025, the first day of the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought announced that roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure funding had been put on hold. The two projects...
In late August 2025, the administration employed a "pocket rescission," a late-fiscal-year funding proposal timed so that Congress would have no opportunity to act before the fiscal year ended, to withhold approximately...
On January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum directing federal agencies to pause grants, loans and other financial assistance implicated by the administration's policy directives. The...