If you’re a poor person in America, Trump’s budget is not for you

Washington Post ^ | March 16 2017 | By Steven Mufson and Tracy Jan

[Oldeconomybuyer]

If you’re a poor person in America, President Trump’s budget proposal is not for you.

Trump has unveiled a budget that would slash or abolish programs that have provided low-income Americans with help on virtually all fronts, including affordable housing, banking, weatherizing homes, job training, paying home heating oil bills, and obtaining legal counsel in civil matters.

Gone would be $35 million in funding for well-known programs such as Habitat for Humanity and YouthBuild USA, fair housing planning, and homeless assistance, among other housing help for needy Americans.

Other targets include funding for neighborhood development and a home-buying program through which low-income individuals help build their own homes. Trump also plans to cut the Home Investment Partnership Program, the largest federal grant to state and local governments that is designed to create affordable housing.

Poor people need not lean on community banks for financial help, either, because Trump plans to eliminate the $210 million now dedicated toward Community Development Financial Institutions.

Alaska’s rural poor get hit by the budget proposal, too, despite having two Republican senators. The Agriculture budget would eliminate the Denali Commission, designed to deliver services to remote, rural communities in Alaska, including Native Americans.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Draining the swamps bank accounts.

[fwdude]

“poor person...”

The left loves poor people so much, they keep making more of them.

[DoughtyOne]

When you’re dealing with people who get very upset when you just reduce the amount of planned growth, you’ve got your work cut out for you dragging the Left along with any cutbacks whatsoever.

[fwdude]

I hardly find any downside in the list this leftist rag posts.

Scratch that. I don’t find ANY downside.

[MrEdd]

If you’re a welfare slug, and refuse to work for anything...

[alexander_busek]

Trump has unveiled a budget that would slash or abolish programs that have provided low-income Americans with help on virtually all fronts, including affordable housing, banking, weatherizing homes, job training, paying home heating oil bills, and obtaining legal counsel in civil matters take hard-earned money from successful people, under threat of force, and redistribute to others, at the government's discretion.

There, fixed it!

Regards,

[353FMG]

It also means that his budget is not for the unemployed, and there are still plenty of those.

Jobs, jobs, jobs, please.

[Steely Tom]

If you’re a poor person in America, Trump’s budget is not for you

Says the Washington Post's mega-multibillionaire, virtue-signaling owner.

[simpson96]

Title of a recent piece from one of the authors, Tracy Jan -

"The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites"

Lol.

[ColdOne]

I am surprised they haven’t used the grandma will have to eat dog food theme yet.

[petro45acp]

“...if you are a poor person...”

Why are you poor?

KYPD

[JBW1949]

grandma will have to eat dog food coming in 5..4..3..2..1

[rjsimmon]

Women, children, and minorities hardest hit...

[Rusty0604]

These programs should be left to the states and charities.

[P-Marlowe]

Too bad poor people can’t afford a subscription to the Washington Post.

[KosmicKitty]

Maybe the poor people will be able to find jobs now and pay for all that stuff themselves.

[CrazyIvan]

Tattoo artists hit hardest.

[Mr. K]

Yes, because he hates poor people and he’s like Hiter

[Mr. K]

After $4 Trillion dollars spent on the “War on Poverty” HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE STILL HAVE POVERTY???

[DoodleDawg]

If you’re a poor person in America, Trump’s budget is not for you

Life is like that sometimes.