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In California

At Least $16.2B Gone.

That money was funding

384

local governments

305

nonprofits

111

tribal entities

725

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting California

Last updated October 30

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How California has been hit hardest

Here are three significant ways California has felt the impact of federal funding disruptions.

Health

Medicaid payments in California and Minnesota slowed

$2B disrupted

Vance Announces Suspension Of $1.3 Billion In Medicaid Payments To California | The New York Times

Disaster Relief

Emergency planning funding slowed

$133M disrupted

Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states | The Boston Globe

Health

Public health funding selectively discontinued in CA, CO, IL, and MN

$53M disrupted

Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States | The New York Times

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$26,538,038,618$2,805,694,112
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Health$2,516,788,000$2,570,336,062
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
—
Health$189,040,057,226$2,211,177,261
  • medicaid enrolees
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Health$6,882,288,059$1,679,249,939
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$1,601,883,825$1,589,192,370
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$6,813,262,893$1,157,991,826
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Health$1,643,675,747$759,362,238
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
Transportation$654,843,290$628,743,290
  • pedestrians
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Environment$274,244,158$237,652,877
  • underserved communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$211,986,778$225,384,250
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$167,811,510$162,656,457
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Commerce$163,883,294$162,390,726
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Housing$156,048,377$154,824,187
  • migrants
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$209,419,790$135,129,822
  • graduate students
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$187,370,110$132,811,911
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
  • in litigation
Education$154,796,308$124,291,777
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Food and Nutrition$123,628,023$123,628,023
  • farmers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Science and Technology$245,552,745$120,188,508
  • researchers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$113,656,498$103,201,731
  • tribal communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$103,848,491$95,871,491
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Education$152,230,513$80,051,190
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • permanently lost
Agriculture$99,804,541$77,340,196
  • farmers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$75,397,804$75,397,804
  • electricity customers
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Energy$75,000,000$74,812,109
  • workers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$135,272,620$73,145,021
  • wildfire communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Education$50,747,375$70,089,804
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
Disaster Relief$68,570,124$63,475,129
  • rural communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Health$559,165,357$52,728,147
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
  • in litigation
Justice and Legal$209,145,131$38,860,901
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Disaster Relief$103,407,355$38,228,712
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Social Services$270,356,043$30,738,454
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$40,874,686$29,646,856
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Energy$54,001,654$28,029,520
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$43,314,000$27,414,000
  • ferry riders
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Energy$25,136,928$25,136,928
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Education$63,987,321$24,536,045
  • students
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$31,820,587$24,187,197
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$53,853,810$21,724,062
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Justice and Legal$16,451,346$17,735,921
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$14,964,736$12,914,856
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$12,349,574$12,665,147
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$28,837,141$12,497,959
  • medical researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Justice and Legal$13,143,066$9,599,029
  • local communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
Transportation$15,369,474$8,578,812
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$27,007,162$8,100,800
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$8,311,778$7,696,778
  • underrepresented businesses owners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Health$9,932,455$7,355,198
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$17,347,007$7,206,348
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Economic Development$12,386,818$6,731,818
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Health$208,299,255$6,563,081
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Education$10,500,000$6,475,932
  • educators
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$6,599,460$3,791,467
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$3,339,850$2,594,050
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Housing$13,665,590$2,310,691
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
Culture$31,369,443$1,260,914
  • families, adult learners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Natural Resources$934,723$706,648
  • boaters
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$788,733$203,767
  • workers
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
58 impacts$240,398,700,777 total expected$16,202,243,726 total lost

How California is fighting back

Across the country, states are going to court to force the administration to keep its promises and restore funding.

California is one of 27 states that have joined lawsuits against the administration.

Learn more about the work to restore promised federal funding. How states are fighting back

Methodology

All content on Lost Funds is based on publicly available data.

The primary source for grant award amounts is USAspending. Litigation information is pulled directly from court documents available via CourtListener. Expected funding figures are drawn from the strongest evidence available. We rely on award announcements when we can, falling back to agency budgets, Congressional appropriations, and historical trends. If we have only national funding levels for an impact, we estimate each jurisdiction’s expected share using historical spending when possible, supplemented by program-specific allocation factors like population or highway miles.

We catalog a disruption when one of the following has occurred:

  1. the formal cancellation of funding a federal agency has committed to deliver under a grant award or contract for procurement;
  2. the freezing of funds wherein a formal cancellation does not exist, but grant and contract recipients cannot draw down funds; or
  3. a slowdown in the pace of grantmaking as measured by the number of new awards issued or fewer dollars obligated or outlaid under awards compared to previous years.

We identify funding disruptions using a variety of signals, including agency communications, directives from the administration, media coverage, litigation filings, and direct submissions.

Note: For the purposes of this site, states are defined as the 50 states and the District of Columbia. We also track funding disruptions in the U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands) and in the freely associated states (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau), which receive federal funding under Compacts of Free Association with the United States.

How to cite the data:
Clawson, J., Kaczmarek, U., Ross, N., Scott, E. R., Shan, M., Mairson, E. & Delaney, S. (2026). Lost Funds: A States United and Grant Witness Project Tracking Funding Disruptions under the Trump Administration [Dataset]. Accessed {access date}. https://lostfunds.org

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