Donald Trump Wants To Take Low-Income Heating Funds To Pay For Coronavirus Fight, ‘Washington Post’ Reports – By Jonathan Vankin (Inquisitr) / Feb 25 2020
Trump proposes pulling $37 million from home heating assistance funds and shifting gas to coronavirus response.
With the United States’ top health officials warning of a potentially severe coronavirus outbreak striking the country, Donald Trump has already instituted massive cutbacks in the American defense system against health crises and epidemics.
But as a possible coronavirus epidemic approaches, the president is scrambling to boost spending in response to the potential crisis. This includes a plan to take away money earmarked to help low-income Americans pay for home heating oil, and spend it instead on the anti-coronavirus effort, according to a report Tuesday by The Washington Post.
According to Foreign Policy Magazine, Trump’s cutbacks have included shutting down the National Security Council’s “entire global health security unit,” slashing national spending on health by $15 billion, and ditching the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund.
“After dithering for weeks as the coronavirus spread around the world, the Trump administration has now decided to pay for its belated response by cutting funding for heating assistance for low-income families,” Evan Hollander, spokesman for House Appropriations Committee Democrats, told The Washington Post.
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