Trump admin cuts $177 billion in federal grants across all 50 US states: Report

US President Donald Trump. The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to USD 177 billion in federal grants since President Donald Trump began his second term, with disruptions affecting all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a tracking tool released by the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness.According to the Associated Press, the figure was released through a new tracking tool called Lost Funds, launched by the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness, a group of researchers and scientists.Health, nutrition, environmental programmes and disaster relief accounted for the largest share of the disrupted funding.Grants for health, education, farmers affectedThe groups said grants that were eliminated, frozen or delayed included funding for maternal health programmes in Michigan, education research in Mississippi and assistance for minority farmers in Iowa.California, Texas, New York, Illinois and North Carolina recorded the highest amounts of interrupted federal grant money, according to the tracker.The groups said the USD 177 billion figure represents nearly 10 per cent of federal discretionary spending. They also said the scale of the disrupt...