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In addition to the cuts at the E.P.A. and the State Department, Mr. Trump’s team is expected to propose a wide array of cuts to public education, to transportation programs like Amtrak and to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including the complete elimination of the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which funds popular programs like Meals on Wheels, housing assistance and other community assistance efforts.
I remember my husband's 99 year old grandmother getting meals from them. Guess she should have gone out and gotten a job!
Or your husband could have paid for her meal. Why should my family have to?
Seriously....our church and our town sponsored meals on wheels (& I guess they got some money from the Feds). Both my wife and my teen age daughter volunteered (my wife for over a decade). If the Feds stop giving the program money, they can get it elsewhere...or perhaps MOW will be picked up or moved elsewhere?
I'm all for taking a hatchet to EPA & Amtrak. I'd be fine with eliminating 90% of HUD (& 90% of the Dept. of Education), shut them down and move the remaining semi-essential 10% of the departments into other agencies. (Treasury or Interior?).
Hmm, the article came from the "NY Times". Are they still in business?
Why isn't that covered by local charities? The community centers and churches of all denominations in my area are constantly having local food drives. There are outreach committees that provide food and personal hygiene items to the elderly/disabled house-bound. None of this needs to be a Fed Gov sponsored service.
How involved are YOU in these local charities.? The one I am involved in through my church relies heavily on federal dollars. Please go volunteer for one rather than making assumptions like that.
I'm glad to see the elimination of CDBG funding. The federal government should not be funding local programs. I hear local politicians complaining about it all the time because it is not a constant source of funding. A program that is funded one year may not be funded the next, leaving local government scrambling to adjust resources on a yearly basis.
Not only that, Fed funding almost always has strings attached that frequently do more harm than can offset the good. Anyone who's been involved in/with local agencies which provide such services knows that.
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I do support Meals on Wheels at a local level though, probably at the county level would be the best method.
Yeah -- I don't have a problem with funding shifting for meals on wheels BUT
you do know when you shift burdens to state or local -- it isn't a reduction really because when those tax entities get a bigger burden they have less for things like infrastructure, etc...and the federal govt. ends up somehow coughing up the shortages.
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