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We track data on federal funding to defend American science and the rule of law. https://grantwitness.org
This is an excellent article about what has been happening with federal funding for scientific research.
These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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NOAA studies and monitors our coasts, the deep sea, weather, climate and even outer space. It has endured staff firings, suppression of scientific reports, budget cuts and grant terminations. This week we're adding it to Grant Witness's tracking. grantwitness.org/noaa/updates... 🧪
Grant Witness is tracking NOAA Terminations and Funding
Tracker and Submission Form is now available on our website
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NOAA studies and monitors our coasts, the deep sea, weather, climate and even outer space. It has endured staff firings, suppression of scientific reports, budget cuts and grant terminations. This week we're adding it to Grant Witness's tracking. grantwitness.org/noaa/updates... 🧪
Grant Witness is tracking NOAA Terminations and Funding
Tracker and Submission Form is now available on our website
grantwitness.org
Ahead of Fiscal Year End, NSF Over a Billion Behind, IES to Award Funds www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
NSF Over Billion Behind on Grants; IES Says Will Give Funds
As the fiscal year’s end looms Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation has awarded significantly fewer grants than usual, and a judge has ordered an update from the Institute of Education Sciences o...
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Really helpful website with information by sector and state on funding for programs that has been cut or frozen: Clawson, J., Kaczmarek, U., Ross, N., et al (2026). Lost Funds: A States United and Grant Witness Project Tracking Funding Disruptions under the Trump Administration lostfunds.org
Lost Funds — $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
lostfunds.org
We're proud to partner with @statesunited.org on the new Lost Funds project, comprehensive tracker of how the administration has usurped Congress's power of the purse and harmed local governments, businesses, nonprofits, tribes, schools, universities and communities across America.
States United Democracy Center@statesunited.org · 3w ago💰🚨 NEW: Since January 2025, the Trump administration has disrupted $177 billion across 17 funding sectors in all 50 states and DC. Our new project with @grantwitness.org tracks every dollar, grant by grant, and shows the impact of disruptions 🔗 www.lostfunds.org
💰🚨 NEW: Since January 2025, the Trump administration has disrupted $177 billion across 17 funding sectors in all 50 states and DC. Our new project with @grantwitness.org tracks every dollar, grant by grant, and shows the impact of disruptions 🔗 www.lostfunds.org
Lost Funds — $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
lostfunds.org
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
Politico@politico.com · 2w agoTrump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
🚨 Funding disruptions are harming farmers, doctors, children, teachers, police officers, disaster relief workers, and millions of other Americans across all 50 states trying to make ends meet. This is NOT business as usual. www.lostfunds.org
Lost Funds -- $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration's federal funding disruptions state by state -- what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
lostfunds.org
Please join me in thanking the named plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd & @jddaw.bsky.social These brave scientists are taking on risk to protect science, scientists & beneficiaries of science (all of us). www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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New lawsuit challenging NIH actions around "DEI" on Constitutional grounds. protectdemocracy.org/work/researc... 1/2
Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy
Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...
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The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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We're proud to partner with @statesunited.org on the new Lost Funds project, comprehensive tracker of how the administration has usurped Congress's power of the purse and harmed local governments, businesses, nonprofits, tribes, schools, universities and communities across America.
States United Democracy Center@statesunited.org · 3w ago💰🚨 NEW: Since January 2025, the Trump administration has disrupted $177 billion across 17 funding sectors in all 50 states and DC. Our new project with @grantwitness.org tracks every dollar, grant by grant, and shows the impact of disruptions 🔗 www.lostfunds.org
The White House and OMB's diminished vision for science and medical research undercuts discoveries to come... ... and will lead to significant, near-term economic losses totaling tens of billions of $-s and tens of thousands of jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy27
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2027 Budget Cuts to the NIH and NSF
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Lots of stories across Pennsylvania about NIH grant terminations at Pitt and Penn. This is why speaking out matters. Even Congress critters who generally support the administration get pressured into actually supporting their constituents. www.wesanews.org/health-scien...
McCormick, Fetterman question termination of more than 100 health research grants
Pennsylvania’s senators are demanding information about more than 150 health research grants canceled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this summer.
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Glad to work with @aip.bsky.social to highlight the dramatic loss of support for physics from NSF this year. Dig into the numbers at grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪
Physics Today@physicstoday.aip.org · 4w agoWith less than one month to go in the federal fiscal year, NSF has awarded 31% fewer grants in its math and physical sciences directorate than the average for 2000–24. https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/the-shrinking-nsf-support-for-the-physical-sciences?utm_campaign=PT_social
Obligations are down 20%, about 1.5 billion. Most of that is due to the $1 billion in withheld funds, though it seems there's another ~$500 million sitting in accounts (~$350 million in the Office of the Director) which may just not be spent. 9/9 is the last day to internally commit funds.
Grantmaking has leveled off, so it looks like NSF will make around 6,200 new grants—down from an average of ~11,000. That's a historic low, not seen since the 1980s, when NSF was a far smaller organization. Left was our projection three weeks ago, right is the current data.
Penultimate? FY26 NSF grantmaking update One month ago (8/4) New grants: 4310/7761 — 55.5% of avg. Obligations: 4.10/5.08 billion — 80.7% of avg. Now (9/7) New grants: 6,144/10,857 — 67% of avg.* Obligations: 5.97/7.49 billion — 80% of avg. *avg. from 21–24 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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@jeremymberg.bsky.social and the Grant Witness team — @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social — are the experts at tracking grant money NIH is sending out the door. And the latest curves are not looking great:
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last mo.NIH funding curves posted at grant-witness. It looks like grant making is slowing down noticeably and we are in the now in the last month of the fiscal year. It seems like "NIH" may be challenged to get all of the appropriated funds out the door (even if that is their intention).
Right. Vought and Bhattacharya tried to gut NIH in 2025 via stopping spending (Fed Reg bans) and rescission. That failed. Now in 2026, they’re still using bureaucracy inside the agency to try to slow spending. But they need a new way to get the leftover money (meant for science!) out of NIH. 1/
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last mo.absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
Was looking at Grant Witness and got to thinking... How does American geoscience survive *next* fiscal year given NSF's stated goals for the geoscience directorate and the collapse of other federal funding? What's left?
Have we heard much about this sort of thing at NIH? I've heard whispers about a plan to shift SROs to different study sections every few years but nothing so far about POs being forced into other ICs.
Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · last mo.The Trump Department of Interior is forcing out dozens of its most senior career staff, giving them two weeks to accept involuntary reassignments or leave. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and more. www.notus.org/agencies/int...
Grant Witness has been an invaluable resource for navigating terminations and funding. Much of my reporting — and, judging by how often GW is credited, that of everyone else who's covering these tumultuous times in federal science — would have been far more difficult or impossible without it.
Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · last mo.Check out our new @grantwitness.org website! 18 months ago, we launched as a humble Google Sheet listing 8 terminated NIH grants. Today, we’ve launched a new site tracking tens of thousands of grants and new awards at several different agencies. THANK YOU to everyone who's made this possible! 🧵
New NSF BIO solicitation says expected number of awards is 250-300. Historically, the number of awards is closer to 800-1000 for the Directorate of Bio Sciences: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Unless I'm missing large, non-core programs, this seems really not good?
Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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