The National Council of Nonprofits CEO and President Diane Yentel said Thursday that some organizations had seen funds restored but many others across the country were still waiting in limbo, and “unfortunately, much of the confusion, chaos, and harm that the directive unleashed hasn’t ended.” The council was among the organizations that sued over Trump’s orders.
The organization Cain works for, Coalfield Development, helped leverage almost $700 million for projects tied to Biden administration spending packages, funding 1,000 jobs in West Virginia alone.
Two weeks ago, the White House froze spending on federal loans and grants, plunging organizations across the country into uncertainty and creating chaos for nonprofits in the poorest, most rural states, like West Virginia.
West Virginia's reliance on federal funds to help address deeply ingrained issues makes it particularly vulnerable to the new administration's sweeping actions in a state where Trump support has run deep since his first presidency.
In Huntington, West Virginia’s second largest city, Cain and Hannah toured a former coal train refurbishment factory slated to become a manufacturing hub and business incubation space where workers should have been busy with rewiring, brick and roof repair.
