NEW: 100 Days In, Trump is Blocking At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People
Murray, DeLauro release new information tracking federal funding Trump is freezing—hurting communities across the country
Washington, D.C. — Today—on President Trump’s 100th day in office—Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, released a new tracker detailing how President Trump is freezing at least $430 billion in federal funding that Congress has promised to communities across America.
As President Trump marks 100 days in office, he, Elon Musk, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought are trampling over our nation’s laws and choking off critical investments that families, businesses, and local governments in every zip code are counting on.
In response, Senator Murray and Congresswoman DeLauro issued the following statement:
“While President Trump is pushing to pass massive new tax breaks for billionaires like himself, he is unilaterally blocking hundreds of billions of dollars in investments owed to the American people.
“Just one hundred days into office, President Trump and Elon Musk are continuing their unprecedented assault on our nation’s spending laws, and it is families, small businesses, and communities in every part of the country who are paying the price.
“Instead of tackling the cost-of-living crisis, President Trump is making it worse—blocking funding for Head Start centers, holding up funding to help families cool their homes this summer, cancelling programs to help feed kids in schools, ripping away funding for birth control and cancer screenings, and so much more.
“Instead of helping disaster survivors rebuild their lives after enduring the unthinkable, President Trump is blocking billions of dollars in relief.
“Instead of making our communities and our nation safer, President Trump is holding up public safety grants and critical investments Congress has made to strengthen our national security.
“Bottom line: instead of investing in the American people, President Trump is ignoring our laws and ripping resources away from them—insisting our country cannot afford to help families make ends meet at the same time he seeks over $5 trillion in new tax breaks for billionaires.
“No American president has ever so flagrantly ignored our nation’s spending laws or so brazenly denied the American people investments they are owed.
“Today, we’re publishing a new tracker to shine a light on President Trump’s vast, illegal funding freeze and how it is hurting people in every zip code in America.
“It’s time for President Trump and Elon Musk to end this unprecedented and dangerous campaign to block funding for cancer research, infrastructure projects, disaster relief, and so much more.”
As the tracker details, President Trump has—through a variety of different means—frozen, cancelled, clawed back, illegally impounded, and slow-walked federal funding for all manner of key priorities. Among much else, this includes investments in:
- Critical research into Alzheimer's disease, women's health, cancer, diabetes, and much more, throwing research already conducted into the shredder and setting back treatments and cures.
- Public safety, including COPS grants, Office of Violence Against Women grants, and programs to help victims of crime.
- Relief for states and communities responding to and recovering from natural disasters.
- Farmers and local agriculture businesses, making it more expensive for hardworking people to run their farms and cutting off research they count on.
- School lunches and food for child care institutions at the detriment of the farmers who rely on these local markets.
- Head Start. Head Start programs are already beginning to close their doors as this administration slow-walks funding, kicking kids out of their classrooms and sending parents scrambling to find new preschool options.
- Critical investments in transportation projects—for roads and bridges, airports, public transit, ports, and more—and energy projects across the country that are creating new, good jobs and lowering families’ monthly energy bills.
- Our national security and efforts to prevent and end global conflicts.
- Essential health services like birth control and cancer screenings for over 800,000 patients—and resources to protect people from public health threats.
The tracker offers a snapshot-in-time look at the vast array of federal funding that should be going out the door, but that President Trump, Elon Musk, and Russ Vought—in an unprecedented scheme—are holding up or actively fighting in court to block.
The tracker is not comprehensive or exhaustive—but it catalogs a wide range of investments that this administration is choking off, in many cases illegally. Compiled by the Democratic staffs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the tracker details the minimum amount of federal funding the Committees believe the administration is currently freezing, cancelling, or fighting in court to block. It does not detail tens of billions of dollars in funding that President Trump has previously frozen but finally allowed to flow—and it cannot measure the incredible cost of President Trump’s illegal funding freezes to American families, businesses, and communities. Additionally, it does not capture the wide range of funding at serious risk of not going out the door because of President Trump’s unprecedented mass firings or the full range of fiscal year 2025 funding that has yet to be awarded or disbursed, but that should be flowing.
In some instances, there are programs and priorities listed in the tracker that courts have ordered the Trump administration to release—rebuking President Trump’s unprecedented assault on our spending laws. Funding for those programs is listed because the Trump administration is actively fighting in court to block it; any relief provided by the courts at this stage is only temporary; and because this administration has over the last several months—whether through intentional defiance or sheer incompetence—repeatedly failed to get funding to its intended recipients even when ordered by a court to do so.
In addition to flagrantly violating our nation’s spending laws, President Trump, Elon Musk, and Russ Vought are also taking every step they can to hide what they are doing from the American people. Despite repeatedly vowing to have the “most transparent administration in history,” President Trump has led an administration that has systematically obscured its spending actions and the actions of DOGE, failed to provide responses to oversight requests from Congress, refused to answer basic questions from the press, and even taken down a key website requiring OMB to publicly post spending decisions, in clear defiance of the law. The unprecedented lack of transparency and responsiveness makes tracking what funding is being blocked all the more difficult, and it remains the Trump administration's responsibility to not only follow our spending laws but to explain its actions to date.
The new database can be found on the Senate and House Appropriations Committees’ websites.
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