(La Porte, IN) - The City of La Porte is starting to feel the pinch from a $1 million federal grant being revoked by the cost costing Trump administration.

 

The funds awarded during the Biden administration were for removing dead and dying trees and replacing them with new ones over the next several years.

 

During the city’s Board of Public Works & Safety meeting, City Engineer Nick Minich said an order for 80 trees costing around $50,000 was cancelled.

 

He said new buyers were found for most of the trees but the city purchased 18 trees from the original order with other funds in a show of good faith to the provider. 

 

The grant was pulled during the time the new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency was uncovering and eliminating forms of spending it felt were unnecessary.

 

The city has been working with members of Congress and others in an attempt to recover the grant to help fund a program aimed at removing hundreds of dead and dying trees and replacing them with new ones.