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In Washington

$3 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

74

local governments

51

nonprofits

33

tribal entities

307

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Washington

Last updated September 15

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How Washington has been hit hardest

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

Health

Health research grants cancelled and frozen

$9M disrupted

Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks | KFF Health News

Economic Development

Community loans funding slowed

$8M disrupted

CDFIs file lawsuit against Treasury to release funding | National Mortgage News

Education

Migrant worker scholarships slowed

$4M disrupted

Adult Ed Funding Restored, but Migrant Students Still Waiting | Inside Higher Ed

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Disaster Relief$1,560,601,526$936,070,485
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Health$568,770,148$549,482,486
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Health$529,095,032$338,478,957
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$1,340,771,184$333,856,153
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Environment$315,739,873$313,289,877
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$128,503,127$109,149,460
  • ev drivers
  • +4
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Transportation$56,626,951$54,626,951
  • pedestrians
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Social Services$49,551,705$47,438,096
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Environment$95,042,964$40,518,708
  • underserved communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently lost
—
Environment$36,445,838$35,912,101
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Environment$39,314,398$35,564,398
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Energy$36,620,716$28,179,710
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Agriculture$29,395,550$27,823,927
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$23,883,848$23,883,848
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Transportation$29,900,000$18,400,000
  • ferry riders
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Commerce$33,314,077$17,330,785
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Disaster Relief$19,521,551$13,769,539
  • public safety
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$21,206,146$13,248,997
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$19,586,980$9,993,263
  • students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$17,420,317$9,669,121
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
—
Health$29,793,406$9,471,572
  • medical researchers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$18,878,059$8,697,116
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$10,471,051$8,523,085
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Economic Development$8,300,174$7,934,174
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$14,508,407$7,230,281
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$3,629,536,630$7,223,961
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Science and Technology$18,434,974$6,631,337
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$9,658,199$6,456,179
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$39,334,602$6,068,088
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Social Services$6,651,384$5,627,906
  • teenagers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Justice and Legal$10,380,896$4,014,327
  • local communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
—
Energy$6,752,188$3,818,474
  • rural communities
Funding slowdown——
Education$7,997,762$3,726,650
  • migrant students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$3,375,864$3,688,646
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$4,223,708$3,111,848
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$5,400,675$2,595,686
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$3,011,380$2,199,739
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$25,436,177$1,969,415
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Environment$3,712,535$1,729,129
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Housing$2,660,506$1,528,900
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
—
Social Services$869,495$487,088
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Employment and Labor$181,174$252,480
  • workers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$305,802$219,674
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
44 impacts$8,843,120,556 total expected$3,091,826,194 total lost$0 total restored

How Washington is fighting back

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

Washington has joined9 lawsuitsand restored$0in grant disruptions.

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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