Local impacts of Trump's budget cuts in Pierce County

The articles describe how Trump's federal budget cuts impact local services and infrastructure.

Local schools face losing millions in federal support. Food banks say cuts limit their ability to provide food to families in need. Federal layoffs reduced the workforce across multiple agencies. A dam project in Western Washington lost funding. Local governments joined lawsuits to fight new requirements attached to grant programs. National service programs like AmeriCorps experienced grant cancellations, which affected organizations and volunteers in the region.

Port of Tacoma officials are wary of proposed new tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China.

NO. 1: ‘LIKE BRINGING IN A CHAINSAW.’ LOCAL TRADE OFFICIALS NOT KEEN ON TRUMP’S TARIFF PLANS

Port officials cite state’s relations with allies, potential effect on agricultural trade, among other issues, including with Canada. | Published November 26, 2024 | Read Full Story by Debbie Cockrell

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Northwest ICE Processing Center holds and processes detainees, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. By Brian Hayes

NO. 2: TRUMP IMMIGRATION ORDER HAVING NEGATIVE IMPACTS AT TACOMA DETENTION CENTER, LAWSUIT SAYS

Costs of immigration proceedings expected to rise as a result of restricting access to legal services for noncitizens, plaintiffs contend. | Published February 5, 2025 | Read Full Story by Peter Talbot

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The General Services Administration relocated its regional headquarters a few years ago from its Auburn campus to the Columbia Bank Building, 1301 A St., in Tacoma.

NO. 3: ARE YOU IMPACTED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS? THE NEWS TRIBUNE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU

The Trump administration has cut over 1,000 federal jobs. We’re asking Tacoma readers who have been impacted to fill out this form. | Published March 7, 2025 | Read Full Story by Daniel Schrager

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Clover Park High School. By Clover Park School District

NO. 4: AS TRUMP ORDERS DOE BREAKUP, HERE’S HOW MUCH FEDERAL MONEY FLOWS TO PIERCE COUNTY SCHOOLS

Education unions have raised concerns about disruptions to critical funding. | Published March 26, 2025 | Read Full Story by Shea Johnson

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Customers can get shelf-stable items, frozen food and most other items at Nourish Pierce County’s mobile food bank parked outside Lighthouse Baptist Church, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Lakewood, Wash. With rising food cost Cook uses the food bank to help ends meet. By Brian Hayes

NO. 5: FEDERAL CUTS HIT PIERCE COUNTY FOOD BANKS. ‘PRICES ARE JUST THROUGH THE ROOF.’

Local food banks are facing new shortages with food and funding amid federal cuts. | Published April 20, 2025 | Read Full Story by Constanza Montemayor

The Howard Hanson Dam in the Green River watershed was built primarily for flood control. It also provides water for Tacoma and other municipalities. By Craig Sailor

NO. 6: TRUMP CUTS TO WESTERN WA DAM PROJECT LIKELY TO AFFECT HOUSING, WATER SUPPLY

Tacoma Water and Covington Water District point to long-term effects that not only affect salmon habitat but also the region’s growth. | Published May 17, 2025 | Read Full Story by Debbie Cockrell

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Rhonda Borba, former AmeriCorps Program Assistant for Tacoma Boat Builders, who now strictly volunteers at the non-profit, poses for a portrait, on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. By Brian Hayes

NO. 7: WILL TRUMP’S AMERICORPS CUTS STICK? FEDERAL JUDGE RULES THEM UNCONSTITUTIONAL

What does this mean for AmeriCorps programs in Washington and Pierce County? | Published June 6, 2025 | Read Full Story by Becca Most

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Tuan Phan is shown June 5, 2000 in Pierce County Superior Court during a hearing over a fatal shooting in Tacoma he later pleaded guilty to. In May 2025, Phan was one of eight men put on a deportation flight bound for South Sudan before a federal judge intervened. By LUI KIT WONG

NO. 8: TACOMA MAN HELD IN EAST AFRICA PART OF LATEST TRUMP FIGHT OVER DEPORTATIONS

The 43-year-old Tacoma man, who was convicted of murder in 2001, is one of eight men housed in a converted shipping container in Djibouti. | Published June 7, 2025 | Read Full Story by Peter Talbot

People gather in hallways and the entryway of the Tacoma Public Schools Central Administration Building to watch a board of directors meeting on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. The auditorium where the meeting was held and an overflow room were both filled with people during the meeting. By Liesbeth Powers

NO. 9: PIERCE COUNTY SCHOOLS STAND TO LOSE BIG MONEY UNDER TRUMP’S PROPOSED BUDGET

Tacoma Public Schools is forecast to lose $2.6 million each year, the most of any district in the county. | Published June 11, 2025 | Read Full Story by Isha Trivedi

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Lutheran Community Services Northwest, on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. LCSN, which assists refugees, recently was one of several plaintiffs that filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its suspension of the U.S. refugee-resettlement program. By Brian Hayes

NO. 10: TACOMA NONPROFIT FIGHTING FOR REFUGEES NOW TAKING AIM AT TRUMP’S TRAVEL BAN

The travel ban is being applied to refugees, including those protected under a federal court’s preliminary injunction, according to court records and attorneys. | Published July 8, 2025 | Read Full Story by Shea Johnson

A homeless encampment partially blocks the sidewalk along 96th Street east of Hosmer Street in Tacoma, Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2024. By Tony Overman

NO. 11: HOMELESS SERVICES ARE AT RISK DURING PIERCE COUNTY’S LEGAL BATTLE WITH TRUMP

Learn how Pierce County’s lawsuits against HUD over funding conditions threaten vital homeless programs, with millions in funding uncertain or delayed. | Published July 10, 2025 | Read Full Story by Cameron Sheppard

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