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What Grantees Should Know About Grant Conditions and the Current Federal Funding Landscape—for Select Victims’ Services and Community Planning and Development Grantees

Democracy 2025

May 27, 2026

Overview

This memo is the first in a series of resources to help the federal grantee community understand the current legal landscape affecting conditions imposed on federal funding under the Trump-Vance administration. For grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this memo identifies: (1) conditions placed on victims’ services and community planning and development grants; (2) the source of those conditions; and (3) the legal challenges to those conditions and the relief that has been granted by courts so far.

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