They’re stealing our nation’s children’s quality of life!
Cuts to education, farm-to-school meal programs, child care, child protective services, child support….the list goes on and on. It will be DEVASTATING to struggling families! If they can’t simply cut funding, they send the DOGE boys in to fire the folks meant to distribute the funds and close offices. Will Medicaid be next?
“Everyone’s been talking about what the Trump administration and DOGE have been doing, but no one seems to be talking about how, in a lot of ways, it’s been an assault on kids,” said Bruce Lesley, president of advocacy group First Focus on Children. He added that “the one cabinet agency that they’re fully decimating is the kid one,” referring to Trump’s goal of shuttering the Department of Education. Already, some 2,000 staffers there have lost or left their jobs.
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