February 10, 2025

How Trump's chaos just trickled down to my mother-in-law's senior housing community

 Jarvis DeBerry, MSNBC - Fear spread through my mother-in-law’s senior housing apartment building last week that the Trump administration’s announced pause on federal funding would strip residents of their Section 8 vouchers and SNAP benefits and end their deliveries from Meals on Wheels. 

Referring to a slate of mean-spirited, backward-thinking executive orders Trump had previously signed, the now infamous Jan. 27 Office of Management and Budget memo said that “to the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders.”

 

Why wouldn’t people getting federal financial assistance to keep a roof over their heads and food in their fridge feel like their government was treating them as disposable? More

 


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