Trump cuts Michigan

There are nearly 1,300 libraries across the state of Michigan. Last year, they received almost $4.8 million from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Hundreds of people protested the Trump administration with signs and banners at highway bridge overpasses in Ann Arbor, Port Huron, Flint, Hazel Park, and Plymouth on Friday, and hundreds more showed up to protest DOGE head and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at a Tesla dealership in Ann Arbor.

Hundreds of union members, residents, and activists protested outside an EPA lab that tests vehicle emissions in Ann Arbor, to protest massive layoffs in the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies by DOGE, plans by the EPA to roll back environmental regulations, and threats by the Trump administration against long-standing union protection for federal employees.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she will travel to Washington D.C. soon to lobby federal officials against proposed big cuts to the U.S. Department of Education and new tariffs against Canada and other trading partners.

Nonprofit, health, and food service organizations have recently spoken out against the issues they’ve faced since the temporary federal funding freeze in January. Experts say groups have been dealing with delayed payments, uncertainty around future reimbursements, and employee fear.

Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.

The State of Michigan is starting to prepare unemployment resources for federal workers who may be losing their jobs.The Trump administration has been trying to downsize the federal government through layoffs, firings, and offering benefits to employees who choose to resign.

An overflow, standing room only crowd packed a town hall meeting hosted by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and Washtenaw County’s legislative Democrats.

Michigan groups that help provide public assistance with federal grant money testified before the state Senate Oversight Committee Wednesday. The committee focused on how groups that work in areas like public health and childcare handled a pause in their federal grant funding in late January, and are preparing for possible future cuts to that money.

Michigan was among 23 states that successfully sued to temporarily halt an effort by the Trump administration to make significant cuts to biomedical research grants funded by the National Institutes of Health that advocates say could have closed labs, caused thousands of layoffs, and damaged crucial biomedical research across the country.