BUTTE — Cuts made by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are going to affect the Montana Fair Housing organization headquartered in Butte, which will slash its annual budget by about 80%.

“I was quite taken aback to see an email, open it up and find out everything stops this minute,” said Montana Fair Housing Executive Director Pam Bean.

In a Feb. 27 email from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bean was informed that a grant that provides Fair Housing with $425,000 in funding each year was immediately terminated per executive order requiring DOGE cuts.

“Oh, it was quite a shock. We were preparing—we had interviews scheduled to hire a couple folks, cases in the midst,” said Bean.

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