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In South Carolina

$2 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

75

local governments

34

nonprofits

17

state agencies

102

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting South Carolina

Last updated September 15

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How South Carolina has been hit hardest

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

Justice and Legal

Funds to help communities and law enforcement prevent violence cut

$52M disrupted

Education

Teacher training programs terminated

$27M disrupted

Trump slashed teacher training, citing DEI. Educators say the grants fought staff shortages | Associated Press

Culture

Historic preservation awards stalled

$5M disrupted

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$3,309,505,075$904,445,698
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$345,902,304$343,149,977
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Health$241,481,749$342,319,197
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$783,475,145$210,726,317
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$74,128,089$51,750,682
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Education$17,727,938$27,287,968
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Environment$26,246,890$26,049,891
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Environment$25,787,051$25,787,051
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Commerce$23,193,110$23,106,527
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Transportation$9,882,914$20,975,516
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Employment and Labor$83,786,628$18,605,192
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Commerce$13,978,751$11,655,783
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$14,420,813$11,219,302
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Education$15,477,737$9,958,662
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$9,430,345$9,320,157
  • public safety
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$15,547,825$9,003,886
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Health$10,239,431$8,020,312
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$11,642,186$7,371,767
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$14,326,119$7,333,474
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$7,008,719$7,014,133
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$6,595,033$6,312,323
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Disaster Relief$6,244,989$6,205,769
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Agriculture$18,191,128$6,069,214
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Culture$6,374,082$4,590,996
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Justice and Legal$7,829,825$3,282,904
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program———
Social Services$5,513,171$3,197,298
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$6,211,712$2,938,726
  • underrepresented students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Economic Development$4,202,429$2,602,429
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$1,845,197$2,074,048
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Education$3,559,068$1,966,759
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$4,226,375$1,695,244
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Science and Technology$1,587,422$1,312,005
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$2,274,166$1,263,230
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$931,062$931,062
  • wildfire communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Housing$1,394,901$858,584
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$688,899$383,015
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$393,143$305,878
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$674,998$202,133
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Agriculture$214,660$98,232
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
40 impacts$5,164,074,656 total expected$2,153,324,918 total lost$0 total restored

How South Carolina is fighting back

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

South Carolina has not yet joined a lawsuit.

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 states’ expected shares 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.

We also track litigation arising from disruptions where the attorney general or governor of a state brings an action against President Trump, federal departments or agencies, or executive branch officials. In cases where plaintiff states seek nonmonetary relief such as an injunction, we calculate the amount under dispute for a given impact area as the aggregate of disrupted funds among plaintiff states. Where plaintiff states have specified loss amounts in their pleadings, we use those figures to calculate the amount of funding restored from litigation, otherwise we derive them from state-level estimates of funding disruptions.

Note: For the purposes of this site, states are defined as the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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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