6 days ago · Potential future reductions in federal funding are already worrying groups like Hope’s Door in Hawthorne, New York, which provides services, shelter and support to victims of domestic violence ...

5 days ago · A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week, and blocked by a pair of judges, is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. Some ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Update: The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday, Jan. 29, rescinded a memo ordering a federal funding freeze less than two days after it caused chaos and stoked fear that...

Feb 2, 2025 · The freeze on federal funding will also have dire consequences for housing and homelessness services across the country. Programs designed to provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing rely heavily on federal grants and subsidies. With a funding freeze in place, these programs may be forced to reduce their ...

Feb 3, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge in the nation’s capital kept a temporary block on a Trump administration plan for a freeze on federal funding Monday after some nonprofit groups said they’re still struggling to get promised grants and loans.. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan extended an order she issued last week that paused a sweeping plan to freeze potentially trillions in federal spending.

5 days ago · Since fiscal 2001, foreign aid has ranged between 0.7% and 1.4% of total federal outlays. For context, the federal deficit – the gap between receipts and expenditures that has to be bridged by borrowing – was nearly $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2023. Foreign aid was a bigger share of federal spending at the height of the Cold War.

Jan 29, 2025 · A small town that needs help fixing a decrepit water system. Officials in Prichard, Alabama, where more than 30% of residents live in poverty, are counting on federal grants, including from the Biden-era infrastructure program, to help fix a decrepit drinking water system that often loses more than half its water through cracks, leaks and failing pipes.

Aug 1, 2024 · In 2021, the US government provided nearly $1.3 trillion to state and local governments through federal grants. These grants made up a fifth of states’ total revenues, funding healthcare, education, social services, infrastructure, and public safety programs.

Nov 22, 2024 · The House Republicans’ bills would increase hardship for households struggling with the rising cost of rent by inadequately funding rental assistance and cutting funding for other affordable housing programs.

Feb 1, 2025 · A federal judge on Friday sided with a coalition of 22 states and temporarily blocked a federal aid funding freeze directed by the Trump administration — the second such order this week. U.S ...