UCLA Luskin Professor of Public Policy Randall Akee is quoted in a Marketplace story on federal budget cuts and their impact on tribal economies in the U.S. The article focused on a new survey detailing how tribal economies have been impacted in the first months of the current federal administration. Survey responses include feedback on how federal grants that support vital services have been frozen, federal contracts that have been abruptly canceled, and how agencies that tribes work closely with are experiencing layoffs, according to the story. Akee, chair of the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA, said that the new administration has offered mixed messages on its relationship with tribes. “This uncertainty is problematic in and of itself,” he said. “Tribal nations and governments are going through their days without knowing whether or not something is going to change. And that changes how they plan and forecast and invest.”