Funding

The Trump administration hasn’t renewed a critical grant that helps fund local disaster response, leaving Oregon counties and tribal governments vulnerable ahead of a potentially active wildfire season.

The National Institutes of Health has eliminated grants for training programs that help young scientists from underrepresented communities get ahead in their careers. Advocates of these programs say these terminations will mean losing out on future leaders and scientific advancement.

One of Oregon’s most sparsely populated counties has seen a contraction of public services in recent years. The county's library director said losing county funding could close the library.

If Republicans in the U.S. Senate pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” Oregonians currently enrolled in Medicaid are more likely than people in nearly any other state to lose coverage and end up uninsured, according to analyses from several national think tanks.

The Clark County Residential Treatment Facility, or Brockmann Campus, will remain shuttered despite being just weeks away from opening.  

The cuts appear to be part of a broader pattern across federal agencies to limit support for disaster response and to target funding for programs that respond to climate change.

More than 150 AmeriCorps volunteers in Oregon are in limbo this week, waiting to see if their federally-funded programs will continue to exist.

As the Trump administration looks to ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at colleges and universities, an Oregon grant program for tribal communities grows in demand.

Eugene 4J School District will be able to continue to allow classroom conversations around race and gender after a federal judge Thursday blocked, at least temporarily, the Trump administration’s threats to defund schools.

The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts by 19 Democratic attorneys general seeks to block the Department of Education from withholding money based on its April 3 directive ordering states to certify their compliance with civil rights laws, including the rejection of what the federal government calls “illegal DEI practices.”