Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than 1 million women and children onto the waitlist of a nutritional assistance program for poor mothers with young children. Reducing federal spending on home heating assistance for low-income families by more than 70 percent with energy prices high heading into the winter months.

With days left before the government shuts down, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has embraced steep reductions to the U.S. safety net in an attempt to appease far-right Republicans’ demands for lower spending. If McCarthy can win over conservatives and pass legislation funding the government, the GOP hopes to have greater leverage in negotiations with the Democratic-controlled Senate and White House. But far-right votes have remained elusive, leading McCarthy to propose ever-larger — and still evolving — spending cuts.

  • yuknowhokat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How in the Royal hell do these people think that those who are disabled or elderly are supposed to live? It just shows that they are heartless mother bastards who really should be kicked out in their own ass and forced to live like they are wanting to dictate that those who don’t have enough would.