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In Maine

At Least $948M Gone.

That money was funding

27

local governments

17

nonprofits

13

state agencies

205

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Maine

Last updated October 30

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How Maine has been hit hardest

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

Transportation

Funding for critical ferries in rural areas stalled

$24M disrupted

Environment

Coastal research and conservation awards selectively terminated

$9M disrupted

Here’s a running list of all the probes, funding cuts since Trump threatened Maine | Maine Morning Star

Education

$4M disrupted

Here’s a running list of all the probes, funding cuts since Trump threatened Maine | Maine Morning Star

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$994,639,758$336,855,137
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
  • restored outside of litigation
Health$207,089,121$218,936,124
  • children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Health$352,713,572$151,513,473
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$59,786,958$54,792,501
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$50,238,484$46,128,400
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Transportation$56,659,474$23,668,000
  • ferry riders
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$15,100,396$15,100,396
  • urban communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Environment$6,523,317$12,003,317
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$9,000,000$8,999,914
  • general public
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Social Services$8,528,271$8,450,601
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$8,354,777$8,151,504
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Commerce$5,891,815$5,844,739
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Housing$5,689,827$5,689,827
  • migrants
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$5,473,048$5,473,048
  • electricity customers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Food and Nutrition$4,999,621$4,999,621
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Health$6,220,985$4,707,676
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Education$4,399,614$4,399,614
  • students
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Energy$3,803,601$3,726,681
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$5,502,767$3,421,193
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$8,764,807$3,246,961
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Disaster Relief$3,096,750$3,002,755
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$3,984,337$2,529,798
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Environment$2,724,998$2,376,617
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$2,245,249$2,245,249
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$30,534,836$1,993,856
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$2,175,994$1,724,111
  • rural communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Environment$1,588,555$1,508,810
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$2,526,592$1,476,374
  • students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$0$1,064,205
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Housing$1,453,677$807,877
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
Education$1,874,265$690,551
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$671,144$671,144
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Education$539,354$539,354
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$3,896,818$529,056
  • tribal communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Economic Development$585,981$435,981
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$730,241$432,560
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$397,121$406,425
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Natural Resources$127,590$127,590
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Health$353,839$93,605
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Employment and Labor$66,173$75,354
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Science and Technology$70,343$70,343
  • researchers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
41 impacts$1,879,024,070 total expected$948,910,342 total lost

How Maine is fighting back

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

Maine 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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