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Ohio's biennial budget will leave Mid-Ohio Food Collective with about $3 million less in food on its shelves over the next two years. The food bank will also get less federal assistance.

WOSU Public Media General Manager Anthony Padgett said the NPR and PBS affiliate is working to fully identify what impacts will be felt. He said programs may change and jobs could be cut.

The Ohio History Connection laid off 12 historic preservation employees last Friday. The organization was counting on $1.5 million in already-appropriated federal funds to pay the staff that handles several federally-mandated programs, but the Trump administration hasn't released the money.

A nearly $250,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services was set to fund the installation of 10 more LGBTQ+ Ohio Historical Markers.

State humanities councils were established by Congress about 50 years ago to make sure National Endowment for Humanities funds made it to smaller communities and organizations.

Columbus Public Health recently lost about half of a $6 million grant for COVID-19 enhanced operations, leading CPH to let go of 11 infectious disease investigators.

Musk responded to a post on X, that questioned why the organizations were getting so much in federal funding. Musk said the Dept. of Govt. Efficiency is "rapidly shutting down these illegal payments."

A new memo from the Office of Management and Budget appeared to say the freeze was reversed, but the White House said that only the original memo was rescinded, not the freeze itself.

President Trump froze funds Tuesday for some loans and grants while his administration reviews whether those purposes line up with his ideologies, and some Ohio groups are worried.

Millions of dollars in federal funding supports medical research and other programs at Ohio State.