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In Delaware

$544 Million Gone.

That money was funding

18

local governments

16

state agencies

6

nonprofits

57

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Delaware

Last updated September 15

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How Delaware has been hit hardest

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

Transportation

Low carbon transportation material funding cancelled before starting

$32M disrupted

FUNDING STATUS: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act | Government Accountability Office

Health

Maternal health programs selectively terminated

$2M disrupted

What Is PRAMS and Why Is It at Risk | The Commonwealth Fund

Culture

Historic preservation awards stalled

$682K disrupted

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$155,726,555$154,197,906
  • children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Disaster Relief$132,870,274$135,955,316
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$548,133,687$88,875,320
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$306,298,335$80,097,542
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Agriculture$7,972,460$7,342,273
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$7,501,775$5,220,775
  • pedestrians
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Environment$4,906,946$4,906,946
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Commerce$4,413,353$4,362,476
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Energy$3,983,822$3,983,822
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Energy$3,554,664$3,554,664
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$4,607,435$3,237,640
  • students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$2,796,800$2,796,800
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
——
Transportation$6,537,086$2,770,677
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • permanently restored
  • temporarily lost
—
Health$2,487,358$2,487,358
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
—
Health$2,569,201$2,080,869
  • mothers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$20,873,509$1,495,761
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$2,817,738$1,215,067
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Science and Technology$1,433,312$1,134,478
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$989,544$989,637
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$961,123$961,123
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
$0
Justice and Legal$906,487$906,487
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$999,831$830,521
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Culture$1,336,643$681,512
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Housing$1,076,391$564,669
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
—
Disaster Relief$2,404,360$554,295
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$1,001,546$530,115
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$1,698,688$263,124
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
——
Health$747,701$258,988
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Natural Resources$39,125$39,125
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
30 impacts$1,263,579,326 total expected$544,228,863 total lost$0 total restored

How Delaware is fighting back

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

Delaware has joined10 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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