Federal Grants

On Friday, January 31, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) sent to all of its grantees, Health Centers, Ryan White programs and others an email stating the following: Effective immediately, [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will help lead a webinar with the National Grants Management Association. This webinar comes at a time of uncertainty as a recent federal funding freeze was established, [...]

On Wednesday afternoon, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a new memorandum—M-25-14—that rescinded the pause to federal funding contemplated in a previous memorandum first issued on Monday night. The [...]

Please note this article has been updated with the latest developments. See more here. Late on Tuesday, January 28—at the end of an extremely turbulent day for all recipients of federal funding—a D.C. [...]

Please note this article has been updated with the latest developments. See more here. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued an updated Memorandum clarifying the scope of the pause on [...]

Please note this article has been updated with the latest developments. See more here. Yesterday, January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum 25-13, entitled “Temporary Pause of Agency [...]

Please note this article has been updated with the latest developments. See more here. Today, the Firm learned that there is a new banner on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza was quoted in the January 23, 2025, edition of The Bond Buyer regarding the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA) adversities that incoming governor Jenniffer González [...]

With the recent transition of Presidential administrations, there have been a substantial number of new Executive Orders that have led recipients of federal grants and cooperative agreements to ask whether the funding they [...]

Please note this article has been updated with the latest developments. See more here. As Feldesman monitors the Trump Administration’s actions, a significant concern is the “pause” on grant announcements by the U.S. [...]