HIAS Pennsylvania reels as Trump’s funding cuts hit refugee-resettlement programs
By Jeff Gammage
Published April 23, 2025
HIAS Pennsylvania is shrinking as the immigrant-assistance agency reels from huge cuts in federal funding under President Donald Trump.
By the end of June its staff will have dropped from 88 to 49 as layoffs take hold, and by the end of October its annual budget will have fallen from about $11 million to about $5 million.
That comes as the Trump administration stops the programs that bring refugees to new lives in the United States and support them for a time after they get here.
“I’m obviously devastated,” said Cathryn Miller-Wilson, executive director of the Philadelphia-based agency, “but I’m unshakable in my faith in my staff and the work that we do.”
