Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them.

A Trump administration memo sent to U.S. federal agencies Monday night ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs across the government. It caused widespread confusion among agency officials and organizations that rely on federal support, including states, schools, hospitals and other nonprofits.

The order, temporarily blocked by a federal judge as it was set to go into effect, was circulated alongside a spreadsheet of about 2,600 programs now under review, spanning virtually every federal initiative that distributes money — even some, like Medicare, that officials said would not be affected.

Below is a list of all those programs, identified by the Office of Management and Budget for examination to ensure they do not “advance Marxist equity, transgenderism and Green New Deal social engineering policies.” Agencies were asked to answer questions about each budget line, including “Does this program promote gender ideology?”

The Trump administration has insisted that direct payments to Americans are not at risk. But the list named numerous programs that aid millions of individual Americans, like Medicaid and Head Start, but that are funded first as grants to states, local governments or nonprofits. On Tuesday, some grant recipients reported interruptions. We’ve highlighted some programs where those interruptions in funding have already been reported or where budget officials have said no freeze will take place.

In sweeping up so many federal initiatives — even interest payments on the federal debt — it was unclear if the spreadsheet reflected oversights and accidental contradictions, or something closer to the administration’s full ambitions. The programs listed below, alongside dollar estimates for their annual spending in 2024, encompass much of how the federal government touches American life.

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