Montana organizations, social services reeling with uncertainty after federal funding freeze
The White House is seen, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
It started with a memo from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Monday night, and by noon on Tuesday, many nonprofit agencies throughout the country and Montana were searching for answers, uncertain whether they should immediately shut their doors and halt programs.
The memo described U.S. President Donald Trump’s initiative to closely examine all federal spending and said that there would be a temporary freeze of funding, which could reach into the billions, even trillions, of dollars. While the Trump administration said there’d be exceptions for payments to individuals, like Medicaid and Social Security, healthcare and nonprofit officials said some of those funding streams were not working Tuesday.
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