April 14, 2026 — The Trump administration is holding up some National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant funding.
Earlier this month, the University of Colorado released a statement saying that a federal pause on grant funding has put scientists who collect data about the atmosphere “at risk for elimination.”
It specifically pointed to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), saying it “has not released these funds.”
Waleed Abdalati, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), told The Hill that about 30 days before the institute was slated to run out of funds to pay the scientists in question, “we were informed that NOAA has put a pause on all grant actions.”
“We are all told to assume no funding is moving through the grants management division until a spend plan has been approved,” he said.