Trump Heating Assistance Cuts Cite Fraud, Raise Recipients' Ire

[IsailedawayfromFR]

President Donald Trump's 2019 budget calls for the end of a heating assistance program for the poor, arguing it is rife with fraud and is unnecessary, the Associated Press reported.
The proposal is the second attempt by the Trump administration to eliminate the program. Last year Congress ultimately appropriated $3 billion, or 90 percent of the program's funding.

This time around, supporters are again mounting a battle to save the program, the AP reported.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/heating-assistance-budget-cuts-entitlements-fraud/2018/02/18/id/844051/

If there was ever a program to eliminate from the federal govt, this is one.

This is a 100% state issue, not a federal issue.

Let the state taxpayers decide whether they wish to cough up the money for its own citizens.

[Frank Cannon]

"If the president turned around and did away with that funding, I have no idea how we'd survive in the winter," Dwayne LaBrecque of Portland, Maine, a diabetic who is on disability after losing several toes and part of his foot to infection, told the AP.

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Lose a couple toes because of living a shitty lifestyle and you hit the free shit lottery in this country. Ridiculous.