With federal means, Minneapolis and St. Paul Brace for cuts – Minnpost

The face of Minneapolis Chief Financial Officer Dusani lit on the morning of February 7, when she received a notice during an interview with Minnpost that the federal funding officially appeared in the city’s bank account.

“We have actually received funding, so it’s just a business, as it is, even with chaos,” Day said.

The funds came about a week and a half after President Donald Trump signed an enforcement order to suspend federal costs for grants, with a recovery recovery system intended to close January 28, DY said. Like many cities across the country, Mineapolis collided to present his case for the reimbursement within the deadline. In the end, a federal judge blocked Trump’s order, but the questions are whether the funding is going to pass is detained.

“We did what we had to do. We hit, but we weren’t even sure if there were people working to process these claims. Only logistics comparing how usually this would happen – everything was unknown, “Dai said.

Before February 7, Dai said that the city was “in a retaining model because we don’t really know what’s going on.”

In response to Trump’s declaration of the executive order, the city compiled a team to find out how many federal expenses in Minneapolis. The team identified about $ 54 million federal costs in 2024 and average monthly costs of $ 4.5 million. This issue excluded the US rescue plan dollars as this money was received “front”.

Federal funds were used for things such as leading lead for children in northern Minneapolis and East Phillips, affordable housing, propaganda and services to quickly return people for people who experience homelessness, response to the opioid epidemic, services to prevent and safety of violence , Emergency Training, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, Security Initiatives, and Development Training and employment of the workforce, according to the city.

Before we see the payment of federal money at the bank “We were all on pins and needles,” said Dai.

Dye remembers Trump’s first presidency, and from a financial point of view, she says his second term is different.

“This time he has a mission. He has Project 2025 and it’s more about getting on the list and just the look of what he said he would do, “said.

St. Paul also tested the uncertainty of federal funding over the last two weeks. Deputy Director of St. Paul’s Finance Laura Logsdon’s director and grant Lindsay Bacher said that although the city was preparing for changes with the arriving administration, the scope of Trump’s executive order was a surprise.

“How wide it was not something that I think is on the radar of anyone,” Bacher said.

In December, St. Paul’s Financial Department conducted training for employees to try to predict how the funding of grants could be changed. This meant to ensure that all grants were updated and changed correctly. The training has also increased the need to make sure everything is properly documented, Logsdon said.

“We also gave advice to people that things would move fast and they could move slowly simultaneously – to predict uncertainty,” Logsdon said. “I know that people, like people in general, have a hard time living with uncertainty. It’s hard to be, here’s how you can prepare for a steady period of not knowing what will happen. ”

Federal grants make up about 20% to 30% of $ 27.6 million in annual federal revenue, Logsdon said. This includes the Law on Care and Dollars for the Rescue Plan that have already been allocated.

Federal money is flowing from agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for housing and prevention of homelessness. The city also receives funding for capital infrastructure projects such as bridges and roads, as well as tax loans of the Law on Decreasing Inflation. Another financing of the city comes from winning competitive grants directly from the federal government or has passed through state or other organizations of organizations, including funds for disaster and programs from the Ministry of Justice such as COPS Grant for Hawrections.

“I do not know if the average person knows how much federal funding affects their daily routine – the paths we drive or the emergency staff that come out when there was an accident or an emergency situation,” Logsdon said.

On February 1, the cities of the Minnesota League published a detailed breakdown of Trump’s executive orders and their impact on the cities.

The analysis is useful as it is difficult to keep track of what is happening with Trump’s executive orders for a minute, said Daniel Lightfoot, a representative of the intergovernmental relations and the federal relations manager with the Minetota City League.

“Many cities that are something like in the middle of the project or request for proposals for something that relies on federal funding or federal tax loans to help support these major capital projects were left in the bat,” said Lightfoot.

Trump’s executive order came as a surprise, despite the general understanding that things would change in the new administration. Like employees in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Cities League in Minnesota continues to try to predict what can come after.

“The new administrations do not have to temporarily make the federal funding for certain programs, but the width of this order was a surprise,” Lightfoot said.

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