Pyrite President Targets Programs In Dem States
Donald Trump's tour of retribution continues as his administration now targets child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. The five Democratic states are in Trump's crosshairs.
As Mary Trump said in December, "We are at this point now where his physical health, his cognitive decline, and his lack of psychological health are all intersecting and it's sort of this perfect storm that is accelerating the deterioration of all of them." She's not wrong.
The New York Times reports:
The Trump administration plans to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in five states controlled by Democrats, claiming widespread fraud throughout those states, without citing evidence, after a major welfare fraud scheme in one of them.
Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter. The five states will also lose access to nearly $2.4 billion for the Child Care Development Fund, which supports child care for working parents, and around $870 million for social services grants that mostly benefit children at risk, the people said.