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In Wisconsin

At Least $2.13B Gone.

That money was funding

57

local governments

38

nonprofits

25

school districts

311

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Wisconsin

Last updated October 30

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How Wisconsin has been hit hardest

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

Energy

Solar power projects cancelled

$355M disrupted

Energy Department to Slash Nearly $24 Billion in Green Project Funding | Wall Street Journal

Health

Student mental health services ended

$26M disrupted

Dept of Justice Wisconsin Department of Justice Blocks Federal Cuts to School Mental Health Grants | WisPolitics

Education

Special education workforce development selectively discontinued

$8M disrupted

Trump Canceled Millions for Special Education Teacher Training. What’s Next? | Education Week

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$465,733,283$455,995,537
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Health$1,043,428,365$359,521,621
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Energy$355,402,170$355,402,170
  • energy consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$594,141,438$275,903,180
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Environment$267,864,175$266,848,093
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$52,011,654$36,283,203
  • ev drivers
  • +4
Never meaningfully begun
  • permanently restored
  • in litigation
Food and Nutrition$2,647,961,262$35,997,426
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Social Services$36,380,982$35,347,170
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$27,537,704$29,392,704
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$33,552,883$26,073,741
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Environment$45,170,829$25,137,473
  • underserved communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$24,871,867$24,820,113
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Environment$24,179,257$23,884,352
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Disaster Relief$9,439,967$20,345,835
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Food and Nutrition$18,886,573$18,886,573
  • farmers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Environment$15,371,164$15,371,164
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Health$29,870,737$14,397,014
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
Commerce$18,017,299$11,398,019
  • tribal communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$10,690,573$10,690,573
  • electricity customers
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Health$14,779,950$9,686,665
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Education$10,500,000$8,400,002
  • educators
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$42,565,348$8,351,571
  • pedestrians
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Education$7,406,174$7,415,329
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$9,875,658$5,563,544
  • students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$7,278,496$5,292,027
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Environment$7,389,153$4,650,258
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$4,615,495$4,615,495
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$9,311,626$4,437,441
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently lost
Disaster Relief$5,603,530$4,066,723
  • rural communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Economic Development$4,267,747$4,029,356
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$3,411,539$3,891,578
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
Social Services$6,307,214$3,869,763
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$26,051,646$3,377,026
  • farmers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$3,851,437$3,109,946
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$31,933,577$2,769,800
  • travelers
  • +1
Never meaningfully begun—
Education$8,298,545$1,659,211
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$4,910,273$1,530,456
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$3,476,214$1,300,710
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$1,650,000$1,150,000
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
Science and Technology$6,676,255$970,522
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$960,460$528,193
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Housing$380,429$380,429
  • migrants
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$7,751,781$266,177
  • rural communities
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$109,658$121,502
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Natural Resources$240,943$66,413
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
45 impacts$5,950,115,330 total expected$2,133,196,098 total lost

How Wisconsin is fighting back

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

Wisconsin 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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