Denver Riggleman

school lunches.

But did you see the list of all these programs either slashed or just completely removed?

Did you see it?

Were there any that stood out to you?

Yeah, there's these community service block grants that was taken away completely.

This is direct aid to people who live in poverty.

And more than 10 million people depend on this every year.

My state alone receives $13 million in grants for fighting poverty to help people.

That's gone.

It's just gone.

We're just hurting people.

We know energy prices are through the roof.

They're cutting a program that prevents people from freezing to death in the winter.

or from dying of heat stroke in the summer.

Trump's budget just eliminates it entirely.

Preschool grants.

We talked about Head Start, pre-K, home visiting programs so low-income children aren't left behind even before they start school.

And that's not even to talk about the cuts to the National Institute of Health.

Yeah.

Well, states get roughly half their public health funding from the federal government through the CDC.