Update CDC

$600M in CDC grants to CA, MN, CO, and IL targeted for termination: Full list

Noam Ross · February 10, 2026

UPDATE 2026-02-12

Our list is now up to 108 grants from the original 66, totalling $730 million grants to be terminated, and we are recieving the first reports of grant recipients receiving termination notices. Go to our CDC grant termination tracker for more, and use our reporting form if your grant was affected.

The Trump administration plans to terminate $600 million in CDC grants to California, Minnesota, Colorado, and Illinois, as reported by the New York Times, the New York Post, and The Hill. A list of these grants has been circulated to Congress. We provide the full list below.

The vast majority of grants cut are operational funds to state and local health departments to support projects such as public health workforce recruiting, retention, and training, and to update and improve IT and data infrastructure.

The administration also circulated a set of talking point examples of grants to be terminated, cherry-picking the most luridly “DEI” language from grant descriptions, titles, and funding programs. You can read the full examples below. The language from these talking points has been reproduced in much of the press coverage. These examples total $33 million in funds to be cut, or approximately 5.5% of the $600 million total.

It is unclear whether all of the talking points refer to grants on the congressional list. For example, a grant to Colorado to “Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities” was not on the list of grants to be terminated shared with Congress.

Many of these grants are Public Health Infrastructure Grants (PHIGs). The administration “paused” then restored this $5B national program over 24 hours on January 23-24. All but 5 PHIGs in these four states are on the list of grants to be terminated.

While we don’t yet know why some PHIGs may survive while most others are terminated, it’s notable that 4 of the surviving 5 PHIGs are in “red” counties. In Colorado, the only surviving PHIG is to El Paso County, where 54% of voters cast their ballot for Trump in 2024. El Paso County is also represented by a Republican member of Congress (Jeff Crank, CO-5) at the moment. In California, 2 surviving PHIGs are in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, which also voted for Trump over Harris in 2024. A 3rd surviving in PHIG in California is in Orange County, a traditional Republican stronghold and home to an outsized proportion of wealthy Trump donors. The final surviving PHIG in California is in Sacramento County, and it is the only surviving PHIG outside a Republican stronghold.

Grant Witness will be launching a CDC grant termination tracker shortly. If you have information about CDC grants being terminated, please fill out our CDC reporting form.

TEXT CIRCULATED BY ADMINISTRATION re: CDC GRANT TERMINATIONS

CDC Examples: The total amount comes from base state and local public health funding in the form of grants. This amount generally does not include disease-specific grants, with the exception of grants that promote DEI and gender ideology. Some examples of cancelled funds include:

• $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.”
• $3 million for the State of Colorado to “Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities.”
• $1.2 million for the State of Colorado to “partner with local public health departments, local health agencies, community-based organizations, STD clinics, family planning clinics, Title X clinics.”
• $754K for the City of Minneapolis for “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health.”
• $7 million for the City of Chicago for “Adolescents, racial and ethnic minorities and men who have sex with men are disproportionately affected with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).”
• $988K to the City of Chicago for “active and meaningful engagements with priority populations affected by HIV and other STIs.”

These grants support activities that are also not in line with Administration policy on DEI and gender ideology.

• $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.”
• $571K for the Stapleton Foundation to “address health disparities experienced by African Americans and Latinos in Northeast Denver and Northwest Aurora.”
• $371K for Colorado Health Network, Inc to “to focus on engaging Latino and African American MSM.”
• $659K to Asian Media Access Inc for “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health” in Minnesota.
• $7.2 million to the American Medical Association in Illinois, which supports gender transitions for children.
• $5.2 million to Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for “Increasing PrEP Use Among Black Cisgender Women in the United States (HerPrEP).”