Cuts Hit North Carolina Public Health and Education

North Carolina will lose at least $714 million in federal funding due to DOGE cuts, reports WFMY News 2, which details the impact on public health and education in the state.

The station says that DOGE is cutting a Department of Education grant worth $11 million to the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s SERVE Center — which funds “research to help students succeed in and out of the classroom.”

The state’s Health and Human Services agency will lose $171 million in federal funding — requiring it to cut at least 80 jobs and scale back some programs. In a statement, an agency spokesperson told the station: “federal grants impact a number of areas of work including immunization efforts, funding for the new NC Immunization Registry, infectious disease monitoring and response, behavioral health, substance use disorder services and more.”