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News Articles: Federal funding

Children sleep during nap time at Minnesota Child Care in Minneapolis on Dec. 30.

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  • Education

Amid fraud claims, Trump admin announces more changes to federal child care funding

The Child Care and Development Fund sends money to states to help make child care more affordable for low-income families. Allegations of fraud in Minnesota have put the program under scrutiny.

January 06, 2026
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By:
  • Kadin Mills,
  • Sequoia Carrillo,
  • and 1 more
Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at a Head Start program in Miami in January 2025.

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  • Education

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.

December 11, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
A volunteer hands a middle Georgia resident two packages of diapers at a giveaway hosted in Macon, Ga. on Oct. 18, 2025. Georgia's community action agencies rely on federal money to pay for the diapers and other supplies or assistance they offer. The majority of that money is tied up in Congress under an ongoing federal government shutdown.

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  • Politics

From diapers to meals for seniors, here’s how the shutdown threatens Georgians’ basic needs

Most of the federal money that normally reaches the state’s Community Action Agencies is tied up in Congress. Some are looking to other funding sources.

October 31, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Children play with Play-Doh at a Head Start center in Michigan.

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  • Education

Families could start losing access to Head Start if shutdown continues

If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families.

October 30, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner and
  • Kadin Mills
Privately owned airplanes stored at an airfield in Savannah on July 25, 2025. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight Local

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  • News

Bryan County airport boosters tout airplane taxes as community benefit

Bryan County can expect $35 million in projected tax revenues over a 20-year period for a new airport that needs at least $66 million in federal and state funds to build, according to an economic study paid for by airport supporters.

October 14, 2025
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By:
  • Maggie Lee and
  • The Current
Caleb Strickland, 4, has an artificial heart pump keeping him alive while he waits for a transplant. Nora Strickland, his mom, says she feels far away from the Trump administration's disputes with universities.

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  • Children's Health

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

October 09, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
A teacher gives a tour of Nora Sterry Elementary School to students in Los Angeles in January. California is one of 24 states suing the Trump administration over frozen education grant funding.

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  • Education

24 states sue Trump admin to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants

The lawsuit comes two weeks after the Trump administration first notified states it was withholding previously approved funds for migrant education, before- and after- school programs and more.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
The entrance of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building in Washington, D.C.

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  • Education

The Trump admin is withholding over $6 billion in education grants for schools

The federal grant funding traditionally goes out by July 1. It includes support for migrant education, after-school programs and English language learners.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo
Electric vehicles sit parked at a Tesla charging station in Sausalito, Calif. In 2021 Congress designated $5 billion dollars to pay for high-speed EV chargers along highway corridors. The Trump administration put a pause on the distribution of that money, which a coalition of states have challenged in court. A judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the funding freeze be lifted for more than a dozen states.

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  • Business

Judge orders Trump administration to resume distributing money for EV chargers

Congress designated money for building new EV chargers, but the Trump administration put a freeze on those funds. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the program to resume.

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
The Washington Memorial Library is located in Macon, Ga., and is part of the Middle Georgia Regional Library system. Elizabeth Tammi Center for Collaborative Journalism

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  • News

Macon libraries face potential program cuts as federal government slashes funding

Middle Georgia libraries may have to reduce programs as federal funding cuts impact museums and libraries across the nation.

June 16, 2025
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By:
  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
President Trump speaks during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

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  • Education

Trump's budget calls for a 15% funding cut to the Education Department

New details of the administration's budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 came after a federal judge blocked the president's efforts to close the U.S. Education Department.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Harvard University's campus in Cambridge, Mass., pictured on Saturday, as students prepared to graduate.

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  • Education

Trump administration moves to cancel remaining federal funds to Harvard

A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Sen. Warnock speaking at the National Head Start Association Conference.

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  • News

Head Start faces possible total federal funding cuts in Georgia, U.S.

Early childhood development program Head Start is the latest group facing federal funding cuts — and it could affect rural areas and working families most.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Georgia State University's School of Public Health hosted it's third Public Health Research Day on April 17, 2025.

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  • Health

Research at Georgia universities has already taken a hit. What could be lost?

Institutions across the spectrum for research expenditures are scaling back and reassessing to prepare for cuts by the federal government.

April 28, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A precipitation monitor from the Southeast Regional Climate Center.

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  • Environment

What lost funding for weather data centers could mean for Georgia, according to climatologists

Data housed by the Regional Climate Centers includes drought maps, air quality visualization and precipitation and temperature averages by state going back more than 100 years.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Chase McGee
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