Nearly nine months into the second Trump administration, Massachusetts has lost out on a total of $3.7 billion in federal funding thanks to Trump administration clawbacks and the domestic policy mega-bill that got signed into law earlier this year, new state data show.
The findings come courtesy of a newly updated state dashboard that tracks the flow of federal largesse into, and these days, mostly out of, the Bay State.
That cash supports a range of programs, from health care and housing to public safety and environmental protection.
“Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans’ funding cuts are making life more expensive for Massachusetts residents, undermining public safety, taking away health care, and hurting our businesses,” Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement accompanying the updated data.
Here’s how that funding loss breaks down, according to Healey’s office:
$3.3 billion in funds cut by Congress
$339 million cut through executive action
And an additional $2.6 billion in terminated National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation grants for research and development efforts at the state’s universities, hospitals and research institutions.
“There is no way that any state can make up for the billions of dollars they are cutting from our budgets. Here in Massachusetts, we are doing everything we can to protect our communities from these negative impacts,” Healey said.
Social service cuts by Congress dealt the biggest blow, coming in at $1.6 billion. The state’s $61 billion budget also took a $1.3 billion hit.
All told, the state’s fiscal blueprint for the 2025-26 budget year is premised on about $16 billion in federal support.
Education and health and human services spending bore the brunt of cuts by the Trump White House, clocking in at $121.6 million and $118.5 million, respectively, according to the state’s dashboard.
Last week, the White House announced that it was killing $466 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. It was part of a larger package of nearly $8 billion in cuts targeting states that Vice President Kamala Harris carried in 2024.
And in late September, the White House announced that it was clawing back $7 million in public safety funding. The cut still left the state $15.3 million to the good, but less than the $22.2 million it was set to originally receive.
The state still did manage to defend or reinstate $223.3 million in funds thanks to the battery of lawsuits filed by state Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell and her colleagues across the nation.
In her statement, Healey noted that work and said the state was grateful to Campbell and her lieutenants for those efforts.
And even as Healey sounded the fiscal alarm, lawmakers in the majority-Democrat state House were teeing up override votes for Wednesday to restore cuts that Healey had made to the 2025-26 state budget.
Those overrides include spending for the state’s nursing home workforce, cash for charter schools, and efforts to bolster the state’s manufacturing industry, House Ways and Means Committee Chairperson Aaron Michlewitz, D-3rd Suffolk, said in a statement.
“While the House shares the Governor’s commitment to fiscal prudence amid the Trump Administration’s devastating budget cuts, we continue to believe that the FY26 budget investments that we will vote on tomorrow can be made in a financially responsible manner,” the Boston lawmaker said.
“This belief is supported by the hundreds of millions of dollars in expected revenue that we set aside during conference committee negotiations, providing the Commonwealth with the necessary flexibility to manage our finances through this ongoing period of economic uncertainty,” Michlewitz said.