White House to Release 2018 Budget Blueprint on Thursday – OMB

Cutting an annual National Endowment for the Arts budget that will only cover Melania’s security at Trump Tower for nearly five months. If the proposed budget is approved, rural communities and small schools should expect to be the hardest hit, according to Kelly Barsdate, chief program and planning officer for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. But one item, amidst other proposed cuts to the likes of the EPA and the State Department, has quickly metastasized as an outsized talking point among Democrats and critics online: Donald Trump is so heartless he even plans to eliminate Meals on Wheels! The funding comes out of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The people who run Meals on Wheels in West Michigan have a different opinion. “For years and years we have built infrastructure like this and it doesn’t work very well”.

JIM ACOSTA: Just to follow up on that, you were talking about the steelworker in OH and the coal miner in Pennsylvania and so on, but those workers may have an elderly mother who depends on the Meals on Wheels program, who may have kids in Head Start. “Many of these people simply would eat less”.

“We’re the only program [in Glendale]”, Edwards said.

“President Trump is not making anyone more secure with a budget that hollows out our economy and endangers working families”, Pelosi said in a statement. Meals on Wheels might have to make up some revenue shortfalls through alternative sources if the CDBG program were eliminated, but they wouldn’t be shut down. This is the human impact of bureaucracy, especially in the Trump administration.

Bill Marler, a food safety attorney who has worked on a slew of food-borne illness cases, said the budget was worrisome because it leaves the power and role of the FDA up in the air.

And what about the coal miners and factory workers, who presumably do pay some federal income tax? She pointed to a provider in Ypsilanti, Mich., that she said it faced a 30 percent cut in funding.

“We need more inspectors given we’re importing an increasing amount of food, he said”. “It’s pretty staggering what we can do with a little bit of money”.

In the president’s roughly 60-page outline, it reads that the federal government has spent over $150 billion on this block grant since 1974.

“Salt Lake City utilized funds now under threat, to make sidewalk repairs, improve the Jordan River Parkway, provide home fix for seniors and those with disabilities, support computer literacy programs for youth, and for various homeless services”.

Legal aid for the poor and low-income heating assistance will also likely be cut, if the proposals area approved in the House of Representatives. “People would really suffer”.