The Trump administration has delayed or blocked millions of dollars in federal grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leaving state and local health departments in the dark, uncertain when or even if they will get money that's already been appropriated by Congress for key public health initiatives.

With little communication from the White House, CDC staff are trying to expedite getting grants out the door, and public health officials are scrambling to spend the money they have before it expires Sept. 30.

The CDC typically doles out the money it receives from Congress to state and local health departments, which in turn fund local contracts.

But with the start of the new administration, the White House began to apportion money to CDC on a month-by-month basis,

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