02/12/2025 at 02:30PM
A full committee oversight hearing.
The Trump’s administration’s unconstitutional funding freeze is disrupting “funding streams through multiple federal agencies including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service, Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Native American Programs.”
The federal government provided $32.6 billion in direct funding last year to federally recognized tribes through various programs and agencies.
Among the programs frozen by the Trump administration are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tribal assistance programs and grants for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.
As the freeze was enacted, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) was confirmed overwhelmingly by the U.S. Senate on January 30th by a vote of 80-17.
The Democrats who joined the Republicans were Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Bennet and Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cantwell (D-Wash.), Cortez Masto and Rosen (D-Nev.), Durbin (D-Ill.), Gallego and Kelly (D-Ariz.), Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Hassan and Shaheen (D-N.H.), Heinrich and Lujan (D-N.M.), Kaine and Warner (D-Va.), King (I-Maine), Klobuchar and Smith (D-Minn.), Padilla (D-Calif.), Schatz (D-Hawaii), Slotkin (D-Mich.), Warnock (D-Ga.), Welch (D-Vt.), and Whitehouse (D-R.I.).