Trump administration’s budget cuts endanger Meals on Wheels: ‘Life and death implications’

Trump team's slashes to US health department threaten popular program that combats elder hunger and isolation…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/28/meals-on-wheels-cuts-trump-administration-hunger

 

Aging, disability and poverty-fighting agencies gutted amid HHS layoffs : Shots - Health News : NPR

The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services slashed the staffs of major federal aging, disability and anti-poverty programs, leaving the future of those programs uncertain...

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl 

 

Here's the truth about Meals on Wheels in Trump's budget

President Trump's first budget proposal to Congress last week specifically identified steep cuts to hundreds of domestic programs, but Meals on Wheels wasn't one of them. The popular program — which mainly uses volunteer drivers to provide hot meals to older Americans across the country — doesn't directly receive federal funding. As Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, told reporters Thursday, "Meals on Wheels is not a federal program."

Nevertheless, Meals on Wheels quickly became the poster child for the impact of Trump's budget cuts. Even before the budget's release, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., tweeted that Trump had called for the "elimination" of Meals on Wheels, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus quickly dubbed it the "Starvation Budget."...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/meal-on-wheels-trump-budget-proposal-cuts/99308928/

Paul Krugman Reveals What's Most Upsetting About Trump's Budget Proposal

It goes beyond cuts to essential programs like Meals on Wheels....
http://www.alternet.org/paul-krugman-reveals-whats-so-uniquely-upsetting-about-trumps-budget-proposal

Trump, Ryan budgets will kill more Americans per year than all Muslim extremist attacks combined

Meals on Wheels. How far do you have to get down the scale of ideological depravity before your pen lands on Meals on Wheels as the thing you need to get rid of to buy those last two more Tomahawk cruise missiles that will finally make America a super-duper-dominant world power again....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1644226

Trump Budget Director Suggests Meals On Wheels Doesn't Show Results

Defending the draconian spending cuts in the first Trump budget, the White House's top budget official suggested Thursday that "Meals on Wheels" isn't "showing any results." Appearing in front of reporters in the White House briefing room, Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, broadly defended the cuts to most of the $3 billion Community Development Block Grants which provides funding to states for Meals on Wheels, among other programs....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/states-cut-funding-meals-on-wheels