The Hill - The Trump administration is rescinding a total of $1.5 billion in health and transportation funds from multiple blue states, a spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) confirmed Thursday.
The OMB directed the Transportation Department to rescind $943 million from Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota, and it directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to rescind $602 million from those states.
The Transportation funds are mostly for electric vehicle chargers but also include other projects such as green buses. The CDC funds would have gone toward state and local health grants that the administration feels are too “woke.”
... The targeted Transportation programs include: $100 million for deployment of electric vehicle chargers in Illinois near underserved communities; $15 million for Minneapolis and St. Paul to deploy chargers in low-income and high pollution areas; $15 million for a network across the San Francisco Bay area with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities; and $4.9 million for Colorado to install charging stations in low- and middle-income neighborhoods.
The health programs facing cuts include: $5.2 million for the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to increase use of HIV-prevention drug PrEP among Black women; $3 million for Colorado to address COVID-19 related health disparities; $988,000 for Chicago to engage with populations impacted by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; and $500,000 for the University of California to evaluate intimate-partner violence among LGBTQ youth.
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