DOGE’s shutdown of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) significantly impacted North Carolina, which was the fourth-highest state recipient of USAID funding in the country.

In some parts of the U.S., though, fear of being detained by the Trump administration ... Mall to Bicentennial Plaza for a rally set up with the North Carolina Legislature in the background.

But the Trump administration has also directly canceled nearly two dozen grants in North Carolina, largely to do with COVID-related research, gender, minority groups and climate research.