Meals on Wheels in jeopardy funding slash in new Trump budget

A Meals On Wheels of San Francisco worker prepares meals.

“And they bring you good food that’s healthy”, she said Friday at her home in Topeka.

For now, the volunteer group will continue to pick up and deliver meals and plan their next fundraiser. The Trump Administration has proposed eliminating CDBG funding that’s provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD.

“The Democrats are not going to give us 60 votes”, he said. He pointed to programs such as Meals on Wheels as initiatives that are “just not showing any results”. We can not defend that anymore.

“They’re the eyes. They see if a person has fallen and broken their hip or they look around discretely to see if there is a deterioration in the environment, to see if there is a deterioration in the person’s ability to communicate”, said Shade. Federal budget cuts that would reduce funding for this program illustrate the callousness and cruelty permeating the GOP’s political ideology in the name of “saving money” while redistributing it to the wealthiest Americans.

Not every Meals on Wheels would be impacted though, the service is Mason City that the Community Kitchen helps organize doesn’t receive federal funding.

Most days, it was senior volunteers delivering the meals.

According to Meals on Wheels, the program – which also receives state funding and donations – needs more federal dollars, not fewer. That means the cuts Mr. Mulvaney discussed would have a limited impact on Meals on Wheels. So if you did not have Meals on Wheels then what happens?

Meals on Wheels of Greater Lafayette delivered 35,631 meals to homes in 2016.

Bertolette said the support to the national Meals on Wheels office has been “amazing” and “very overwhelming”. “We don’t want to in any way sacrifice coverage for people who need it the most”, she said. “They’re supposed to help kids who don’t get fed at home, get fed so that they do better at school”, Mulvaney said Thursday.

Anderson says any cutback in funding, would hurt some of neediest people on many levels, including the personal connection they make. “Hopefully they see me as a friend and company at the same time”.

“You have people who are in need of this program who, over the course of their lifetimes, have contributed to our state and to our economy and to the townships that they live in”, said Julie Carco, nutrition director for Will County Meals on Wheels.

“They’re supposed to be educational programs, right?” The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would all be shuttered. “It’s not just a meal”. It now delivers 23 million fewer meals annually than it did in 2005, despite growing demand from an aging population. One gentleman I volunteered with, a retired teacher and recent widower, told me the program was one of the first things to get him out of the house after his wife had passed.