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Dennis Donovan

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Mon Mar 31, 2025, 07:10 AM Mar 2025

AlterNet: 'Unbelievable': Agencies 'scramble' as this ruby red state (ND) loses federal funding [View all]

AlterNet - 'Unbelievable': Agencies 'scramble' as this ruby red state loses federal funding

Michael Achterling, North Dakota Monitor
March 31, 2025

Some North Dakota health agencies are trying to adjust to the sudden loss of federal funding.

The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services learned last week it lost about $3.2 million in federal funding for substance-use treatment and mental health programs after block grants were rescinded by a federal agency.

In an evening email on March 24, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration told HHS that the COVID-19 pandemic-era grants were taken back in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order empowering the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency to cut costs.

“These grants were issued for a limited purpose: To ameliorate the effects of the pandemic,” the email stated. “The end of the pandemic provides cause to terminate COVID-related grants. Now that the pandemic is over, the grants are no longer necessary."

The grants were scheduled to expire Sept. 30.

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