Trump’s Push to Freeze Grants Leaves Nonprofits Reeling

New York Times: “Last week, the Trump administration briefly froze all federal grant spending, cutting off funding to nonprofit groups that do work under a government contract. It lasted all of two days. Then the memo that announced the freeze was rescinded, and two federal judges blocked it, for good measure.”

“But this week, many nonprofit groups said they still felt frozen, or at least chilled.”

“For some, that was because their funding actually remained blocked into this week, despite what the administration and the judges had said. Those groups laid off staff and cut back on services — canceling job training in West Virginia, immigrant services in Wisconsin and help for disabled children in Vermont.”

“For the lucky others whose access to the funds was renewed, the episode demonstrated how easily the government could break their finances, by canceling contracts that previous administrations had agreed to.”