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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust like Hitler, like fascist Germany...go after the weakest, the sick, elderly, disabled
Just like fascist Germany in 1930s
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Trump goes after the weakest, the sick, the elderly,
the disabled.
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https://bsky.app/profile/rachelbitecofer.bsky.social/post/3llmjbwvsmk2p
Trump and Elon are killing off Meals on Wheels.
No, really. 👇
Agency for older adults and people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/agency-for-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities-to-be-shuttered-under-hhs-cuts-d0ff3bc2
Agency for older adults and people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
Former head of agency sees the closure of the Administration for Community Living as an attack on vulnerable populations
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Jessica Hall
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The Administration for Community Living will be disbanded and its critical programs will be integrated into other HHS agencies such as the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS said. The department did not say which ACL programs were considered critical and which would be eliminated.
These are programs that truly are lifesaving and critical, Alison Barkoff, who headed the ACL from 2021 to 2024, told MarketWatch. Dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities may not know the name ACL, but they know senior centers and Meals on Wheels and programs that touch their lives every day.
In fiscal 2022, the ACL provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-living services to nearly 250,000 people with disabilities, Barkoff said.
According to the HHS announcement, the departments current 82,000 full-time employees will be reduced to 62,000. Meanwhile, 28 divisions will be consolidated into 15, and the number of regional offices will be cut from 10 to five. As part of that reorganization, the ACL will no longer exist.

kimbutgar
(24,646 posts)Support Of this Satan.
wcmagumba
(3,741 posts)I don't use the service currently but there are 10 to 12 seniors that get their lunches there daily during the week. They rely on these meals and ending this service will affect them greatly. It is despicable that the orange turd man and thugs plan to end this and other programs that help thousands of people so the rich can profit....What a country these so called "Christians" are making....
electric_blue68
(20,538 posts)What bs they'll pull w this.