Who Is Impacted?

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Tracking Projects

Layoffs Tracker

The Impact Project. Better Data, Better Policy. Share Your Story Support Our Work
The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities. Click image to go to website.
SCIMaP: View Impact of Federal Health Research Cuts National Impact: $16B and 68K Jobs Lost (heat map of the United States)
Interactive map to see how your community will be affected by Trump/DOGE science & research cuts. Click image to go to website.
The Research We Lost Join your colleagues in recording and resisting the defunding of science.
A group of US researchers funded through federal grants who wish to document the damage to our scientific infrastructure. Our data archive is for use by journalists, academics, and the general public.
emptywheel. Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away
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We make America work. fedsworkforyou Follow 240 posts 19.6K followers 172 following Feds Work for You linktr.ee/fedsworkforyou +2
fedsworkforyou Instgram account highlights the important work by federal workers. Click image to go to profile.

In the News

ABC News Layoffs threaten US firefighter cancer registry, mine research and mask lab Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers ByMIKE STOBBE AP medical writer April 4, 2025, 5:18 PM
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Slashing the public health workforce hurts the U.S. economy, Washington Post Editorial Board, Apr 2, 2025Download
How far could Trump’s NIH funding cuts set medical innovation back? By decades, UW researchers warn Kuow Headshot • Steve Howie Stephen Howie March 12, 2025 / 5:22 pm
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Newsweek: USDA Cuts School Food Program: List of States Impacted Published Mar 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM EDT Updated Mar 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM EDT
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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development. Click image to go to Harvard Gazette article. Mar. 11
Slate. Slashing DEI Is Going to Haunt the Future of Medicine Until a couple of weeks ago, I worked in communications at the National Institutes of Health. I saw how clinical trials could be headed backward. Mar 4
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Veterans Are Caught Up in Trump’s and Musk’s Work Force Overhaul Nearly 30 percent of civil service employees in the federal government are veterans. Democrats are highlighting their firings by taking some as guests to President Trump’s address on Tuesday.
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POLITICSState governmentLocal government Meet the federal workers pleading with Andy Harris to fight for them Brenda Wintrode 2/24/2025 5:30 a.m. EST
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Move fast and break people For Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point. Author Marisa Kabas February 23, 2025
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts By Isha Chitirala and Finn Ryan 02/21/25 10:29pm
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DOGE is conducting 15 min interviews of federal workers to decide who to fire. “GSA and DOGE’s vision for the agency now includes artificial intelligence projects that hint at “a Silicon Valley mental model of ‘pour all the data into a [large learning model] and then replace all the jobs with AI,” said the supervisor, who was familiar with the deliberations.” Click image to go to article.

Columbia Spectator Columbia’s medical school pauses spending and hiring amid NIH cuts James McKiernan, interim dean of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, announced the change in a Feb. 11 email to Vagelos faculty obtained by Spectator.
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Barron's Federal Workers Fearful, Outraged Over 'DEI Watchlist' Website By Bill MCCARTHY Feb 10, 2025 8:14 pm EST
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Deaf federal workers face uncertain access following Trump’s DEIA orders Advocates for deaf employees said President Donald Trump’s DEIA orders may have led some to lose access to American Sign Language interpreting services and other accommodations. February 4, 2025
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CBS News POLITICS Judge orders HHS, CDC and FDA to restore deleted webpages with health information

Counts as a win and also includes stories from doctors of how they and their patients were impacted by the loss of CDC information. Click image to go to article.

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USAID purchases around $2 billion a year in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers.

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Costs of NIH’s decision to limit indirect costs on grants to 15%, which will impact all states by millions of dollars. See how much for each state.