Issue Brief: Contingency Planning for State Budgets for IMLS Funding Uncertainty

Prudent state-level stakeholders should be engaging with their state legislators, particularly on appropriations, finance, budget, or ways and means committees, about federal FY2025 IMLS funding contingencies.

https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/state_budgets_imls_funding_contingency

“Immediately following President Trump’s March 14, 2025, Executive Order directing the Institute of Museum and Library Services to “reduce the performance of [its] statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law”, the EveryLibrary Institute issued a Brief that outlined and discussed the statutory obligations and discretionary functions of the Institute in order to help inform our sector about a viable framework for advocacy and Congressional engagement.”