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In Vermont

$642 Million Gone.

That money was funding

25

local governments

14

state agencies

10

nonprofits

72

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Vermont

Last updated September 15

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How Vermont has been hit hardest

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

Disaster Relief

Emergency planning funding slowed

$16M disrupted

Transportation

Low carbon transportation material funding cancelled before starting

$15M disrupted

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

Natural Resources

Aquatic invasive species mitigation slowed

$129K 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.
Food and Nutrition$627,873,761$360,758,505
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$117,666,660$116,206,964
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$58,621,738$57,311,729
  • children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$231,239,906$36,621,468
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$15,545,137$16,272,664
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
  • in litigation
——
Transportation$14,519,759$14,519,759
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Environment$5,703,238$5,550,129
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Health$13,078,145$5,137,908
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$3,937,124$3,603,571
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Energy$10,167,555$3,348,934
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$7,884,453$3,176,457
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • permanently restored
  • temporarily lost
—
Disaster Relief$2,985,600$3,048,063
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$2,984,406$2,984,406
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$17,719,127$2,416,478
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$1,796,554$1,796,554
  • underrepresented communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Energy$1,982,416$1,753,726
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Environment$1,559,040$1,559,040
  • urban communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
——
Education$1,379,752$1,034,022
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$1,885,674$917,279
  • mothers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$6,917,353$686,264
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Housing$1,427,988$640,851
  • renters
  • +4
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
—
Food and Nutrition$612,196$612,253
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Culture$1,844,588$458,418
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Education$449,997$449,997
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$337,829$337,829
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$845,332$326,300
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$881,618$297,003
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
——
Education$270,000$139,269
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Natural Resources$128,533$128,533
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
29 impacts$1,152,245,479 total expected$642,094,373 total lost$0 total restored

How Vermont is fighting back

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

Vermont has joined9 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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