Matt Watkins (WPS)
Federal Funding Freeze Rescinded… But Payments are Still Stalled. Now What?
Date Updated:
30/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Federal Energy and Climate Funding
Updates and Resources
Disclaimer: This database was started on January 28, 2025 and is evolving and in progress. It is primarily for a California community audience. We do not provide legal guidance and cannot confirm the validity or accuracy of the information compiled below. You are welcome to add information in this google doc or email eecoordinator@civicwell.org.
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EPA cuts off IRA solar money already under contract
EENews
Date Updated:
30/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Trump admin’s attack on clean energy and climate funding continues
Canary Media
Date Updated:
30/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Cities Climate Law Initiative: Notes on Judge AliKhan’s stay order
Linked In
Date Updated:
29/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Jamelle Bouie: If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is: All the king’s men is back with a vengeance.
NY Times
Date Updated:
29/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
New memo [rescinding freeze], White House response adds to confusion on federal funding freeze
NPR
Date Updated:
29/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Live Updates: Trump Administration Rescinds Freeze on Federal Grants and Loans
New York Times
Date Updated:
29/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal grants after widespread confusion
Associated Press
Date Updated:
29/01/2025Resource Type: Article
OMB – Rescission of M-25-13
Date Updated:
29/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
Josh Duvall: White House Issues Sweeping Pause to Federal Assistance Programs to Enable Administration Review
Linked In
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Darren Sudman: Nonprofits Will Lose Funding Tonight
Linked In
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Climate Mayor: STATEMENT: Climate Mayors on OMB Call to Freeze All Federal Funding
Climate Mayors
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Environmental Protection Network: Trump’s Illegal Government Investment Shutdown Will Cost Jobs and Harm Public Health
Environmental Protection Network
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
National Council of Nonprofits
Linked In
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Matt Watkins (WPA): Updated OMB Guidance and What It Means
Linked In
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Native American Rights Fund: Tribal Nations Disproportionately Affected by Federal Funding Freeze
Narf.org
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center : FAQs on the federal funding “pause”
Progressive Caucus Center
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Roberts [1985] Memo Could Complicate Trump’s Spending Freeze
Lever News
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Officials Scramble to Interpret White House Pause on Federal Financial-Assistance Programs
The Wall Street Journal
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
States Will Sue Trump to Stop Federal Grant Freeze (Jan 28, 2025) – “Democratic attorneys general from states including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are moving to keep funds flowing to state governments and cities.”
New York Times
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Live Updates: Funding Freeze Spurs New Fight Over Trump’s Vision for His Government
New York Times
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Chaos ripples through country as Trump orders federal funding freeze
AP
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Live updates: White House defends Trump’s federal funding pause
AP
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Judge temporarily pauses Trump’s freeze on grants, loans
Reuters
“U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ordered the Trump administration not to block funding to existing programs until Feb. 3 at a hearing in Washington, D.C., federal court.”
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Ranking Member DeLauro, Vice Chair Murray Raise Alarm on New OMB Memoranda
Trump Administration’s Efforts to Defy Federal Law, Constitution to Withhold Approved Federal Funding
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
OMB Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
(*could indicate vulnerable programs related to EO)
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
House Ways and Means Committee Republicans Report
House Ways and Means Committee Republicans released the following report with potential cuts (*could indicate vulnerable programs related to reconciliation)
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
OMB White House Clarification Memo
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
California Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit
Seeks Immediate Court Order to Block Sweeping OMB Directive Freezing up to $3 Trillion in Vital Federal Funding
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
Steve Vladeck: 120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025
Steve Vladeck
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
State Support Center: Executive Order – Pause on Disbursements
State Support Center
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Professional Opinion
Billions in question as Trump freezes DOE loan spending
EE News
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Article
White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants
New York TImes
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Article
Code of Federal Regulations (CRF) 200.340 Termination
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
OMB M-25-13
Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
A response letter
published by ranking members of the House Appropriations and Senate Appropriations Committees
Date Updated:
27/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
Learning and Guidance Opportunities
- Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG): If you are a grantee or subawardee of a federal program through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) or Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) with legal questions about protecting your funds, please feel free to submit your question to L4GG. Visit the website to fill out L4GG’s intake form.
- Environmental Protection Network
- CCEC’s Local Energy Resources Network: Sign up for our LERN meetings where we will continue to bring in speakers and facilitate discussion and sharing to help us monitor the situation
- National Grant Foundation: Information for Non-Profits Amid Federal Grant Suspensions
Opportunities for Action
- Check programs you’re tracking against this OMB list
- Contact your representatives
- WPA Congressional Letter Template
- Contact your federal grant program officers
- Gather stories of impacts from inability to drawdown funds
- Some suggest to continue work as described in contracts with extra diligence to compliance
- Reach out to your local and regional foundations and private donors to inquire about emergency funds to help weather a stopgap in funding
- Review your award’s terms and conditions to understand potential termination requirements
Executive Order “Unleashing American Energy”
Date Updated:
20/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document
Trump offering federal workers buyouts with about 8 months’ pay in effort to shrink government
Associated Press
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Article
U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Fork in the Road
Deferred Resignation Email to Federal Employees
Date Updated:
28/01/2025Resource Type: Official Document