Skip to main content

Funding Freeze

White House and OMB freezes withholding congressionally appropriated federal funds.

  1. 2025

    13 items
    How continuing resolutions impact federal agency discretionary spending
    What is a continuing resolution and how does it impact government operations?
    Freedom Caucus hatches plan to stave off Democrats’ spending increases through 2026 elections
    Sep 5

    Freedom Caucus pushes a funding freeze. reports of a year-long lock through the 2026 midterms are unverified

    Freedom Caucus holds government hostage until 2026 elections for maximum chaos

    A
    Monae Johnson
    J
    C
    4 figures
    🎓
    Rutgers, Northwestern defend deals with student protesters: 'We had to get the encampment down' - AP News
    College presidents defend their student protest deals - Politico
    H
    Sep 4

    Northwestern president resigns as Trump freezes $790 million in research funding

    Research funding becomes Trump's weapon against campus dissent

    M
    E
    L
    P
    A
    +3
    8 figures
    🎓
    Trump administration freezes more than $2.2 billion after Harvard rejects its demands
    Trump Administration Freezes More Than $2 Billion in Federal Funding to Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson
    Freezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research — Harvard Gazette
    Jul 21

    D.Mass court hears Harvard v. HHS over NIH grant suspension

    Cancer trials halted for 10,000 patients as Trump targets academic freedom

    A
    A
    Linda McMahon
    J
    J
    +4
    9 figures
    Health clinics face cuts, closures as Trump's funding fight ripples outside of Washington
    Trump’s federal funding freeze concerns colleges
    Community health centers face funding delays after Trump administration freeze
    Feb 6

    OMB memo halts HHS funding to 1,400 rural health clinics

    Thousands without healthcare as bureaucracy kills programs

    Kathy Hochul
    1 figure
    🌎
    The Trump Administration’s Cancellation of Funding for Environmental Protections
    Trump has canceled environmental justice grants. Here’s what communities are losing
    EPA Funding Cancellation Continues: 400 Grants Cancelled
    Feb 2

    Trump funding freeze disrupts clean-energy and climate grants

    IRA and infrastructure-law grants become part of broader impoundment fight

    Scott Holcomb
    Mark Lepak
    D
    G
    C
    5 figures

  2. 1983

    1 item
People

Key figures in Funding Freeze

38 figures
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Allison Burroughs
U.S. District Judge
Lee Zeldin
EPA Administrator
Linda McMahon
Education Secretary
Alan Garber
Harvard President
Andy Harris
House Freedom Caucus Chairman
Bill Nelson
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice; voted with majority to stay Burroughs's injunction
Catherine Lhamon
Education Department Civil Rights Director
Chip Roy
Freedom Caucus member
Claudine Gay
Former Harvard President
Congress
DOE
Edward Markey
U.S. Representative - MA
Elise Stefanik
House Republican Leadership Chairwoman
Elon Musk
Billionaire Influencer
Elon Musk / DOGE operatives
DOGE — Department of Government Efficiency
grant recipients
Indira Talwani
U.S. District Judge, Massachusetts
Joan Brugge
Harvard cell biologist; breast cancer researcher
John Thune
Senate Majority Leader
Josh Gruber
Chair, Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism (DOE official)
Kathy Hochul
New York Governor
Katrina Armstrong
Former Columbia Interim President
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Associate Justice; lead dissenter from the stay order
Kristi Noem
Former Homeland Security Secretary
Liz Huston
White House spokesperson
Mark Lepak
Michael Schill
Northwestern University President
Minouche Shafik
Former Columbia University President (resigned August 2024)
Monae Johnson
House Speaker
Peter Barris
Northwestern Board of Trustees Chair
Rob Bresnahan
U.S. Representative - PA District 8
Russell Vought
White House Budget Director
Scott Holcomb
Sean Duffy
Acting NASA Administrator
Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Representative - RI
Tanya Chutkan
U.S. District Judge