How Green Bay Has Been Impacted by DOGE Cuts

Last January, residents of Green Bay, Wisconsin, were alarmed by an Office of Management and Budget memo that requested a review by federal agencies of thousands of federal programs that awarded grants. The small city was expecting tens of millions of dollars in grants that were in jeopardy. In addition, the DOGE website said it had terminated the leases of a Social Security Administration office in Green Bay, the city’s U.S. attorney’s office, reduced staff at the National Weather Service, laid off staffers at Veterans Affairs facilities across Wisconsin, and pulled money from the city’s Conservation Corps.

But per the Green Bay Press Gazette, most of those anticipated changes have not occurred since the “memo was quickly rescinded. Grant cuts have still come.”

The majority of traffic grants to the police department were cut in half, said Traffic Sgt. Sean Hamill at the Traffic, Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission meeting on March 17, “so we’re definitely going to have less deployments than we have in the past, and we’re trying to move around some pieces to try to get more enforcement out there where needed.”