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In Rhode Island

$1 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

30

local governments

19

nonprofits

16

state agencies

45

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Rhode Island

Last updated September 15

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How Rhode Island has been hit hardest

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

Education

Biomedical education grants cancelled and frozen

$41M disrupted

Cancellation of NIH summer internships disrupts ‘vital’ training program for U.S. scientists | STAT

Health

Student mental health services ended

$31M disrupted

Trump Ends 1 Billion in Mental Health Grants for Schools | Education Week

Natural Resources

Aquatic invasive species mitigation slowed

$557K disrupted

Trump Cuts Could Hinder Efforts to Stop Climate-Fueled Spread of Invasive Species | Inside Climate News

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$674,829,469$324,620,138
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$757,410,925$165,026,201
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Disaster Relief$216,413,885$157,845,345
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$149,494,708$142,213,702
  • children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Health$410,982,001$94,150,388
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Environment$48,117,137$48,063,708
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Education$62,308,983$41,301,770
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Health$32,746,766$30,957,587
  • students
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
—
Environment$6,599,157$6,510,338
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Social Services$6,723,288$6,398,288
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Environment$5,159,568$5,159,568
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$5,699,401$4,737,288
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Commerce$4,640,563$4,605,628
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Justice and Legal$5,486,709$4,255,626
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program———
Transportation$7,700,550$3,820,550
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Environment$3,789,217$3,789,217
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
——
Education$3,503,726$3,503,726
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Energy$3,175,177$3,175,177
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Commerce$2,972,340$2,972,340
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$9,045,052$2,769,239
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Disaster Relief$3,834,108$2,659,808
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
—
Disaster Relief$2,234,252$2,234,252
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
  • in litigation
——
Health$1,909,774$1,736,931
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$3,223,459$1,611,911
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$1,374,464$1,361,756
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Science and Technology$2,680,431$1,142,561
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$921,833$921,873
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$1,475,156$875,586
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Environment$18,710,533$778,069
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$32,223,145$766,201
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Natural Resources$198,933$556,616
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Housing$745,923$521,414
  • renters
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
—
Economic Development$289,775$289,775
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$8,082,038$213,903
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$399,174$16,767
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
36 impacts$2,527,035,197 total expected$1,103,496,824 total lost$0 total restored

How Rhode Island is fighting back

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

Rhode Island 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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