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CW: US Pol
So now it's a "race" on if, as is likely, the courts will vote to force the Trump administration to use the emergency funds to fully fund SNAP or the Dems will make it easy to reopen the government, with a planned "deal" to vote on extending medical insurance premium subsidies for one year, within the next month, help furloughed govt workers & vote on spending bills to cover everything through January......which of these will occur first to overall let all on SNAP get said fully promised money's.
Something many aren't talking about is that LIHEAP (Low income home energy assistance program) is in very similar trouble to #SNAP & as such if one of these paths doesn't happen soon, the danger isn't just to starvation deaths direct (which isn't likely this fast) but is likely of hypothermia for people who need SNAP to eat & #LIHEAP to heat their homes in the cold of winter. Hypothermia being much easier to die of when you've not had enough to eat.
I understand & hear the noise on the risk (near certainty) of medical insurance premiums rising sizably without the subsidies, but as expensive & hard to use as these plans already are, with it more frequently being cheaper to do sliding scale fees for care than insurance, I don't view this as a real "threat" or significant problem for many people. Instead what's happening more & more, and is on track to continue is that most will become so poor as to medicaid eligible & use it, beyond sliding scales, to get what treatment/care thru can make the time for.
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@elliek Thanks! It’s a horrendous situation getting worse. The GOP intends to shut down #LIHEAP which is low income energy assistance. It’s hard to qualify but now there may be no help. The electric utilities here say all they can do is abide by ban on shutting of electricity from June 1 to October. (I think these dates are right.)
But we have a medical necessity reason to get an exception if needed, for Drew. We have to start AC April 2 and likely go to October 15. That ban means the day after the ban period, the electricity would likely shut off if those low-come people don’t have balance due in full or payment plan.
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Federal energy assistance helps tens of thousands in Louisiana — Trump says it’s ‘unnecessary’
The federal Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program helps tens of thousands in the state pay their light bills. Now, its future hangs in the balance.
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Federal energy assistance helps tens of thousands in Louisiana — Trump says it’s ‘unnecessary’
The federal Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program helps tens of thousands in the state pay their light bills. Now, its future hangs in the balance.
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Federal energy assistance helps tens of thousands in Louisiana — Trump says it’s ‘unnecessary’
The federal Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program helps tens of thousands in the state pay their light bills. Now, its future hangs in the balance.
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Federal energy assistance helps tens of thousands in Louisiana — Trump says it’s ‘unnecessary’
The federal Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program helps tens of thousands in the state pay their light bills. Now, its future hangs in the balance.
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Federal energy assistance helps tens of thousands in Louisiana — Trump says it’s ‘unnecessary’
The federal Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program helps tens of thousands in the state pay their light bills. Now, its future hangs in the balance.
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On the first day of his second term in 2025, Trump declared a national energy emergency by executive order, saying that
“high energy prices … devastate Americans, particularly those living on low- and fixed incomes.”Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright raised concerns about utility disconnections and outlined a mission to “shrink that number, with the target of zero.”
🆘Yet, the administration’s 2026 budget proposal zeros out funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or #LIHEAP,
the federal program that administers funding to help low-income households pay their utility bills.🔥And on April 1, 2025, the administration laid off the entire staff of the LIHEAP office.
Gutting the federal office responsible for administering energy bill assistance will make it even harder for Americans to make ends meet.
https://theconversation.com/trump-moves-to-gut-low-income-energy-assistance-as-summer-heat-descends-and-electricity-prices-rise-256194 -
#Trump’s budget proposes to eliminate entirely a $4.1 billion program that helps #LowIncome Americans pay their #heating & #cooling #bills. The proposal says that the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program [#LIHEAP] is “unnecessary” because Trump is planning to increase domestic #oil & #gas production & reduce #energy prices. Last month, the admin fired everyone working in the program’s office, which currently helps 6.2 million Americans nationwide offset high #UtilityBills.
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HHS layoffs froze $380M in vital LIHEAP energy aid, leaving millions at risk during extreme weather. The staff cuts jeopardize assistance for low-income families needing help with heating & cooling bills. Urgent action needed. #LIHEAP #EnergyAssistance #ClimateCrisis
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I am not exaggerating when I say this: this move will fucking kill people on fixed incomes and low income families this coming winter. I have multiple customers that literally *CANNOT* afford heat without their LIHEAP disbursements.
This motherfucker tanks the economy on purpose *and* takes away people's necessary support. The cruelty of it all. Of everything he does. Fuck
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Well then. Let's see. Mucking about with #SocialSecurity, and now #DOGE / #Trump is crippling #LIHEAP -- because, you don't have to pay social security to #seniors who have frozen to death! WAY TO SAVE MONEY, ASSHOLES!
#USPol #TrumpHatesSeniors #KillThePoor #TrumpIsABully -
"These questions are still on the table, even after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted a radical plan that President Trump announced Tuesday to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress."
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
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"These questions are still on the table, even after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted a radical plan that President Trump announced Tuesday to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress."
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
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"These questions are still on the table, even after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted a radical plan that President Trump announced Tuesday to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress."
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
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"These questions are still on the table, even after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted a radical plan that President Trump announced Tuesday to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress."
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
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"These questions are still on the table, even after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted a radical plan that President Trump announced Tuesday to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, even though the money has already been appropriated by Congress."
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
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"Will low-income families be able to keep the heat on? Will seniors have access to another meal on wheels? Will Medicaid continue? Will low-income children get breakfasts or lunches at school? Will children be able to go to Head Start?"
~ Amy Goodman
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
/9https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/29/trump_omb_funding_freeze
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"Will low-income families be able to keep the heat on? Will seniors have access to another meal on wheels? Will Medicaid continue? Will low-income children get breakfasts or lunches at school? Will children be able to go to Head Start?"
~ Amy Goodman
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
/9https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/29/trump_omb_funding_freeze
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"Will low-income families be able to keep the heat on? Will seniors have access to another meal on wheels? Will Medicaid continue? Will low-income children get breakfasts or lunches at school? Will children be able to go to Head Start?"
~ Amy Goodman
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
/9https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/29/trump_omb_funding_freeze
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"Will low-income families be able to keep the heat on? Will seniors have access to another meal on wheels? Will Medicaid continue? Will low-income children get breakfasts or lunches at school? Will children be able to go to Head Start?"
~ Amy Goodman
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
/9https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/29/trump_omb_funding_freeze
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"Will low-income families be able to keep the heat on? Will seniors have access to another meal on wheels? Will Medicaid continue? Will low-income children get breakfasts or lunches at school? Will children be able to go to Head Start?"
~ Amy Goodman
#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
/9https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/29/trump_omb_funding_freeze
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"The poorest #Americans and minority communities already live in hotter neighborhoods and they are more likely to live in older, less insulated and drafty homes.
Many states don’t even offer the assistance [of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or #LIHEAP] for summer months, and those that do often run out of funds before the hottest days roll around. The program has been slow to adapt to #ClimateChange’s hotter summers."