Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Columbus police estimated around 1,000 showed up Saturday to protest Elon Musk's involvement in the Trump administration. Only about two-dozen counter-protesters attended.

Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio provides free legal services to those facing housing discrimination through a federal grant from HUD. That grant was just canceled.

The city has already spent close to $400,000 to plant more than 1,200 trees, with many of them in historically Black neighborhoods.

The Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump said the National Institutes of Health grant would be canceled. Ohio State University declined to comment on the grant cancellation.

It's unclear whether the offices will close or be relocated. Among the offices where leases are expiring are the Small Business Administration and Food and Drug Administration.

Like a similar attempt to cut costs by Republicans in Congress, the Ohio lawmakers are calling themselves the DOGE caucus.

The offer is an implementation of a plan outlined by the Dept. of Govt. Efficiency run by billionaire Elon Musk.

Musk responded to a post on X, that questioned why the organizations were getting so much in federal funding. Musk said the Dept. of Govt. Efficiency is "rapidly shutting down these illegal payments."