Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 16:57 pm

President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned states and American territories that they must remove references to “gender ideology” from K–12 education materials or they will lose federal funding.

HHS sent letters dated Aug. 26 to 40 states and Washington, D.C., as well as five territories, that say any state or territory that fails to end the promotion of gender ideology in its implementation of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) within the next 60 days will lose federal PREP funding.

The states and territories cumulatively receive more than $81.3 million from PREP annually, with most taking in a few million dollars and others receiving several hundred thousand dollars in funding.

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