The DOJ Cut Off Trafficking Funds. Then It Protected the Powerful.
A story of vanished grants, blacked-out pages, and the survivors left behind.
On December 22, 2025, The Guardian reported that more than one hundred U.S. organizations serving survivors of human trafficking had lost their federal funding. The Department of Justice, through its Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), had failed to release nearly $90 million in funds appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 2025 to support survivors. Th…
