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Washington governor vows to fight federal funding freezes, protect civil-rights and back clean-energy jobs
Summary
Governor Ferguson said Washington will use litigation and state resources to fight recent federal funding freezes—citing about $162 million currently affected—and pledged to defend reproductive and transgender health care, preserve DEI programs and accelerate state clean-energy investments.
Governor Ferguson used a statewide press conference to lay out Washington’s legal and policy response to early actions by the Trump administration, saying the state will both defend its laws in court and invest state resources to protect residents and jobs.
Ferguson said Washington received roughly $27,000,000,000 in federal funding last fiscal year—about one-third of the state budget—and that “currently, as of this morning… 162,000,000 in federal funds are frozen that we’re aware of.” He listed affected programs including a large award tied to a “solar for all” program (about $156,000,000), a $3,000,000 climate pollution planning grant, and roughly $3,300,000 intended for Department of Natural Resources wildlife preparedness. “Things are literally changing daily, if not hourly,”…
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