Along with these two though, there is another very well-known, albeit much smaller, program that is also set to see is funding cut, Meals On Wheels. Areas that would receive deep cuts include the environment, the arts, science and anti-poverty programs. Although the text of the article was largely accurate, the clickbait headline misled many readers into believing that President Trump had specifically proposed to eliminate Meals on Wheels, a service that delivers meals to individuals at home (primarily seniors) who are unable to purchase or prepare meals for themselves.
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Trump’s proposal would slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department by 31 percent and 28 percent, respectively.
In addition to the proposed Community Block Grant Program cuts, the Department of Health and Human Services could also see a 16.2 percent decrease in funding. However, the message is clear: Frail elders and younger people with disabilities should not count on the federal government to provide them with anything close to current levels of services.
“Meals on Wheels is a wonderful program”. That means Meals on Wheels isn’t going away yet, if it does at all. Hiking the defense budget $54 billion for more war, which could fund conflict resolution work at the Institute of Peace for 1,543 years; their funding will instead be cut. Officials with that agency said they’re not in danger of losing all their funding because they use CBDG money for other projects and fund Meals on Wheels with other sources.
The organization provides meals daily to more than 3,000 seniors in that region. (Reconciliation can only be used once per fiscal year; the GOP gets to use it twice this time because because Congress never passed a 2017 budget resolution last year.) So the Trump budget’s fate will mostly fall to the Appropriations committees, those notoriously picky barons who tend to reject executive-branch dictation over “their” programs.
“President Trump is not making anyone more secure with a budget that hollows out our economy and endangers working families”, Pelosi said in a statement.
“I can’t justify them to the folks paying the taxes and I can’t go to the autoworker in OH and say ‘please give me your money so I can do this program here someplace else that isn’t helping anybody, ‘” said Mulvaney. “My board can not allow an older person to go hungry”.
“How else would I eat?”
Such programs, the authors wrote, “significantly improve diet quality, increase nutrient intakes, and reduce food insecurity and nutritional risk among participants”.
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While Mulvaney described the cuts to the State Department as “fairly dramatic”, he said the country’s core diplomatic functions will not be impacted by the cuts, which he said are focused on reducing foreign aid.
