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In District of Columbia

At Least $2.87B Gone.

That money was funding

114

nonprofits

15

businesses

14

colleges and universities

263

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting District of Columbia

Last updated October 30

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How District of Columbia has been hit hardest

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

Environment

Environmental project grants cancelled

$942M disrupted

EPA workers silenced as agency cancels hundreds of grants | ABC News

Transportation

Port modernization programs terminated

$153M disrupted

Agriculture

Sustainable farming program discontinued

$100M disrupted

USDA Cancels Partnerships Climate Smart Commodities | Columbia Law School Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$1,011,628,214$983,098,542
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$947,319,892$941,606,766
  • general public
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$676,430,171$166,069,442
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Transportation$154,701,121$153,158,293
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$138,830,376$99,619,776
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$102,431,822$99,503,345
  • low-income households
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Environment$30,875,380$66,763,125
  • urban communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Social Services$47,297,760$46,654,743
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$564,039,915$42,149,261
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Environment$40,104,032$40,220,093
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Food and Nutrition$629,291,946$31,385,209
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Education$48,737,264$26,644,868
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Housing$24,442,373$24,442,373
  • migrants
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Science and Technology$33,198,968$14,125,779
  • researchers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$19,304,939$13,902,034
  • ev drivers
  • +4
Never meaningfully begun
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Environment$14,572,059$12,717,608
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Justice and Legal$23,015,038$11,111,970
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Environment$3,198,070$10,023,070
  • k-12 students
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$6,100,606$7,762,015
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Health$14,133,283$7,397,676
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$11,933,708$6,610,313
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$6,756,962$4,817,626
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$4,708,950$4,745,490
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$6,371,531$4,418,837
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Energy$3,146,382$3,146,382
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$2,539,327$2,766,400
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Justice and Legal$2,006,779$2,660,046
  • local communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
Food and Nutrition$2,487,557$2,487,557
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Education$2,988,931$1,990,024
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$1,940,465$1,940,465
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Housing$3,395,539$1,474,439
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
Energy$1,386,386$1,386,386
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Commerce$1,290,999$1,290,999
  • underrepresented businesses owners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$1,315,002$1,215,097
  • wildfire communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
—
Disaster Relief$1,172,596$1,172,596
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Agriculture$2,610,424$809,277
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$660,365$725,700
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$149,954$150,110
  • workers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Culture$2,520,352$31,605
  • families, adult learners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$25,000$11,693
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
41 impacts$4,620,994,015 total expected$2,874,140,607 total lost

How District of Columbia is fighting back

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

District of Columbia 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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