Exclusive | Trump slashes woke DEI and climate funding to California by hundreds of millions

The Trump administration is cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for DEI initiatives and climate change programs in California.

In a crackdown on taxpayer waste, nearly $328 million in Department of Transportation funding to California is being halted, along with more than $300 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to figures obtained by The California Post from the Office of Management and Budget.

The announcement comes right as news broke that Vice President Vance will lead a task force, along with other high-ranking White House officials, aimed at tracking fraud in California and other states.

Some of the funding that is being eliminated include $876,000 for research to address “reducing social isolation among older LGBTQ adults,” $1.1 million for the “National HIV Behavioral Surveillance of Los Angeles County,” and another $600K for Public Health Advocates, Inc. to fund “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health.”

CDC SPENDING EXAMPLES IN CA 

• $876K for the UCSF Prevention Research Center to address “reducing social isolation among older LGBTQ adults.”
• $337K to the City of San Francisco for “intersectoral climate adaptation.”
• $497K for UCSF to fund “Creating Medical Trust with Latinx Communities.”
• $500K to the University of California for the “Evaluation of State-Level Sexual and Gender Minority Laws for the Primary Prevention of Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in the U.S.”
• $200K for the University of California to “convene a National Transgender Health Summit every two years to create sustainable networks for healthcare, mental health, policy makers, LGBTQ+ health advocates, policy experts, and other stakeholders to advance transgender health across health disciplines.”
• $1.1 million for “National HIV Behavioral Surveillance of Los Angeles County.”
• $1.2 million for The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) to “support increased access to quality, affordable health care for nearly three-quarters of a million underserved Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (A/AA and NH/PI).”

• $600K for Public Health Advocates, Inc. to fund “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health.”
• $383K to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
• $465K for St. John’s Community Health to fund “Transgender Status-Neutral Community-to-Clinic Models to End the HIV Epidemic.”

The state’s clean energy is also taking a substantial hit, with the Trump administration ending millions in funding for purchasing electric buses and charging stations.

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The initiatives targeted include $14.3 million to the City of Santa Cruz for EV chargers at “equity-focused” local government sites, $77 million to purchase 75 electric buses and install charging infrastructure in West Hollywood, as well as $9.9 million for the city of Santa Rosa to purchase 6 electric buses to provide “quieter and safer” transit operations for the “Environmental Justice Community.”

The announcement comes just a few weeks after the Office of Management and Budget sent out a memo ordering a sweeping review of federal funding in 14 Democratic-led states, plus Washington D.C., to identify mismanaged and wasteful spending.

The memo at the time instructed agencies to provide a detailed report on all programs and projects, but added it was only a “data-gathering exercise,” and “does not involve withholding funds,” according to Politico.

DOT SPENDING EXAMPLES IN CA

• $31.5 million for Marin County, one of the ten richest counties in the country, to acquire land and build a facility to serve its electric bus fleet
• $77 million to purchase 75 electric buses and install charging infrastructure in West Hollywood, California
• $9.9 million for Santa Rosa to purchase 6 electric buses to provide “quieter and safer” transit operations for the “Environmental Justice Community.”
• $14.3 million to City of Santa Cruz for EV chargers at “equity-focused” local government sites.
• $56 million for the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to construct two state-of-the-art truck charging sites in Taft, CA and Gustine, CA
• $36.5 million to California Air Resource Board to replace 10 diesel locomotives with nine zero-emission battery-electric locomotives and 1 hydrogen fuel cell locomotive
• $11.5 million to San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) to construct 2 electric ferry vessels.