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In North Dakota

At Least $594M Gone.

That money was funding

14

state agencies

12

local governments

12

tribal entities

92

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting North Dakota

Last updated October 30

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How North Dakota has been hit hardest

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

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$121,347,843$183,649,800
  • children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$256,793,043$106,798,872
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$161,718,016$96,484,260
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Environment$42,510,548$41,922,669
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Transportation$29,559,433$29,380,113
  • ev drivers
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun—
Environment$10,323,225$13,617,736
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$18,609,759$13,585,958
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Energy$17,382,781$13,477,675
  • rural communities
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$10,922,860$11,332,447
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$13,791,101$10,219,862
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Employment and Labor$13,043,635$7,862,840
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$7,680,709$7,680,709
  • urban communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$7,356,926$7,356,926
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$4,545,912$4,707,025
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Commerce$3,328,685$3,328,685
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Food and Nutrition$2,283,664$2,283,664
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$4,406,236$1,994,991
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$1,760,049$1,510,787
  • wildfire communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$3,947,640$1,118,095
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Science and Technology$1,966,988$1,110,486
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$5,968,240$1,064,873
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$1,578,365$900,104
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$1,110,624$764,316
  • students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$802,434$230,860
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$718,164$195,699
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$87,353$87,353
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$150,001$14,200
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Environment$24,982$1,934
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Culture$2,594,916$418
  • families, adult learners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
30 impacts$778,247,709 total expected$594,616,934 total lost

How North Dakota is fighting back

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

27 states have joined lawsuits against the administration. North Dakota is not yet one of them.

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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