Over the past year, we’ve seen efforts by the administration to freeze funding for critical basic needs programs that have been enacted by Congress at a time that many are struggling with the costs of health care, food, housing, and other human needs. Service providers have had to turn away eligible families or stop programming because the Trump Administration has withheld and cancelled funding for programs, while state and local governments have had to sue to ensure they get allocated funding. Local entities have had to navigate complicated systems after the Trump Administration fired many of the federal employees who oversee basic programs, ensure that federal funding is provided as the law intended, and safeguard citizens’ access to programs and services. As a result, over 500 organizations sent Congress a letter urging Congress to “insist that the Administration follow authorizing and appropriations law across all federal agencies, release the funding Congress enacted, provide the services required by statutes to all eligible entities, and maintain properly trained federal staff who are able to administer these services in an effective and timely manner.”

Nationwide, community-based organizations and local governments have struggled to address increased needs in their communities, exacerbated by rising costs, and advocates are banding together to reject attacks on funding for local communities that will make things worse.

Proposed OMB Proposal Threatening Federal Grant Recipients

• CHN: Oppose Harmful Proposed Changes to Federal Grantmaking, Impacting Nonprofits and Communities webinar recording and transcript
• National Council of Nonprofits: Proposed changes to the OMB uniform guidance, Chart of Proposed Changes to the OMB Uniform Guidance, and Three ways to take action by July 13:
  • Sign-on Letter: Oppose Sweeping Changes to Federal Grantmaking
  • Use the public comment guide to submit a public comment
  • Email your members of Congress in opposition to the proposal
• Maury-Fox Consulting: Webinar Presentation notes and slides
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:  The Trump Administration Seeks to End Nonpartisan Grantmaking
• AFJ: Sign On: Comment opposing OMB proposed Uniform Guidance rule change, focused on nonprofit voter registration and advocacy provision, deadline: July 9
• National Women’s Law Center: The Trump administration is taking a page out of Project 2025 to hijack federal grantmaking for the president’s political purposes and Tell Congress: Stop the Trump Administration’s Power Grab
• Families USA: Federal Financing Proposed Rule Comment Guide
• Lawyers for Good Government: The Trump Administration’s Extreme Federal Grants Rewrite
• National Academy of Education: Research in Action and Rapid Response Webinar: OMB’s Proposed Regulations on Federal Financial Assistance
• NCSL etc: 45-Day Extension Request for Response to Federal Register Notice, OMB-2026-0034, Regulation of Federal Financial Assistance
• National Association of Counties: OMB Proposed Rule: 2 CFR Part 200 County Resource Hub
• House Appropriations Committee Democrats: House Republicans Endorsed Giving Trump Political Appointees Unilateral Veto Over All Grant Spending and see questioning at Oversight Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
• Senate Appropriations Committee: Sen. Collins Asks OMB to Withdraw Parts of Grant Rule, Extend Comment Period
• Senate Appropriations Ranking Member Murray: Murray Grills Deputy OMB Director Nominee Hal Duncan, Sounds Alarm on Proposed OMB Rule to Politicize All Federal Grants and on Republican Attacks on Social Security
• House Ways and Means Democrats: Neal Demands Trump Administration Withdraw Dangerous Rule to Politicize Federal Grantmaking

Stopping Attacks on Human Needs Funding and Local Communities