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May 13, 2025

Red state victims of Trump cuts

Daily Kos -   When 77 million Americans cast their ballots for Donald Trump for president last year, many of them were voting for exactly the kind of disruptive, government-gutting change Trump has delivered. They probably never imagined that the price of Trump’s cost-cutting would soon hit their own communities, often with devastating economic and public health effects.

Trump’s decision to end billions of dollars in federal grants to a wide variety of state and local nonprofits has crippled the delivery of critical public services in small towns across the country. Some of the hardest hit communities are located in red states like West Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, and Louisiana, where voters backed Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Now some of Trump’s most fervent supporters are left wondering whether anything will be left of their communities in four years.

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