Rescission of Health and Transportation Funds

The Trump administration is rescinding a total of $1.5 billion in health and transportation funds from multiple blue states. The OMB directed the Transportation Department to rescind $943 million from Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota, and it directed the CDC to rescind $602 million from those states.

The cut in Transportation programs include: $100 million for deployment of electric vehicle chargers in Illinois; $15 million for Minneapolis and St. Paul to deploy chargers in low-income and high pollution areas; $15 million for a network across the San Francisco Bay area with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities; and $4.9 million for Colorado to install charging stations in low- and middle-income neighborhoods.

For the CDC the reductions include: $5.2 million for the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to increase use of HIV-prevention drug; $3 million for Colorado to address COVID-19 related health disparities; $988,000 for Chicago to engage with populations impacted by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; and $500,000 for the University of California to evaluate intimate-partner violence among LGBTQ youth.