Impoundment Crisis:
Tracking the Federal Funding Freeze & Legal Fight

Trump’s Executive Actions to Impound Funding

• Unleashing American Energy 
• Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
• Protecting the American People From Invasion
• Advancing United States Interests When Funding Nongovernmental Organizations – White House Memo
• Background on Unlawful Impoundment in President Trump’s Executive Orders – House Appropriations Committee

Tracking Instances of Impoundment

• Using OMB’s Apportionment Website: Resources for Congress – Protect Democracy
  • Open OMB Tool
• Environmental Protection Network Newsletter – Provides a bi-monthly update on federal funding for environmental/energy programs 
• Tracking Federal Expenditures in Real Time – The Hamilton Project

Resources to Respond

• National Council of Nonprofits Story Intake Form 
• Fight Trump’s funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research. – Protect Democracy [Resource Page]
• USAID Stop-Work – Specific to those impacted by USAID pause [Resource Page]

What is the Federal Funding Freeze?

• White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion – Washington Post
• Potential Implications of Trump’s Sweeping, Illegal Funding Freeze – Senate Appropriations Committee [Fact Sheet]
• Does Trump Have the Power to Block Spending That Congress Has Authorized? – New York Times [Article]
• ‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’ – The Atlantic [Article]
• Trump’s Proposed Sweeping Spending Pause Would Harm Americans – Center for American Progress [CAP]

Understanding the Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO)

• Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia – Filed by a coalition of NGOs [Democracy Forward, SAGE, Main Street Alliance, the National Council of Nonprofits, and the American Public Health Association] [1/28/25]
  • Court response: U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan grants an administrative stay, postponing the freeze until Feb. 3rd at 5:00 p.m. [1/28/25]
  • Trump Administration files motion to dismiss the case following the rescission of the OMB memo [1/30/25]
  • Plaintiff’s response to the motion to dismiss [1/31/25]
  • Judge Loren L. AliKhan grants TRO [2/3/25] 
  • A hearing to consider an injunction is scheduled for February 20th at 11:00 am [2/6/25]
• Request for Temporary Restraining Order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island – Filed by a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia, responding to OMB memo directing agencies to halt all funding that “that may be implicated by [President Trump’s] executive orders.”
  • Court response: Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. grants TRO [1/31/25]
  • Trump Administration Response to TRO outlines the Administration’s compliance with the TRO but states that the TRO does not extend to the Executive Orders, which remain in effect [2/3/25]
  • State AGs file Emergency Motion to Enforce TRO [2/6/25]
  • State AGs file for preliminary injunction [2/7/25]
  • Trump Administration Response to Motion to Enforce [2/9/25]
  • Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. grants Motion to Enforce [2/10/25]
  • Trump Administration appeals ruling [2/10/25]
• Summary of the cases and Status Updates: Just Security Litigation Tracker
• Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda – New York Times 
  

State-Specific Impacts

• Federal funding freeze impacts local Head Start nonprofit – Boise State Public Radio
• Federal Fallout: Loudoun County farmers’ initiatives still face uncertainty over frozen federal funds – WUSA9
• Federal funding freeze could delay storm relief, reduce transit for SLO – News Times [Article]
• Late for school: Trump’s funding freeze halts e-bus delivery – PoliticoPro [Article]
• Which states get the most federal health and science funding – Axios
• How Mass. leads the nation in funding the federal government – Axios
• The Consequences of a Federal Funding Freeze in the States – Center for American Progress [Article]
• With freeze on federal funding, cutting emissions in RI just got harder. – The Providence Journal [Article]
• Shapiro, Beshear join fight over Trump’s federal funding freeze – The Hill 
• Federal Government Takes Back New York FEMA Funding – Tweet from NY Post reporter Craig McCarthy
• Energy Bill Surcharge in Alabama – Tweet from journalist Judd Legum
• Red-state universities push back against NIH funding cuts – Politico
• $570 million in federal funding remains inaccessible to Colorado following Trump’s freeze, officials say – Colorado Politics
• Another casualty of Trump’s funding freeze: New Orleans’ tree canopy – Grist
• Wildfire prevention in Oregon stalled by funding freeze – Axios
• EPA grant freeze impacts Michigan projects, court orders ignored – Planet Detroit
• Alabama suspends EV charger program due to Trump order – E&E News [Article]
• Federal funding freeze threatened services to children, seniors and veterans – Savannah Morning News, GA [Article] 
• What could happen in Minnesota under a Trump federal funding freeze – Minnesota Star Tribune, MN [Article]
• How Trump’s federal spending freeze could impact Michigan – Michigan Advance, MI [Article]
• ‘Never in our wildest dreams’: Mass. environmental projects stall amid federal funding confusion – WBUR [Article]
• Trump administration freezes funds for Wisconsin electrical vehicle charging stations – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [Article]
• Some Head Start programs in Colorado face confusion, system errors after Trump funding freeze – Colorado Newsline [Article]
• Solar program for low-income Wisconsin families in limbo since federal funding freeze – Wisconsin Public Radio [Article]