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John,
House Republicans are in Orlando, Florida for a three day summit where they plan to flesh out the details of their fiscal year 2024 budget -- which will severely hurt families and communities, particularly at a time of historic inflation.
At a minimum, right-wing members of Congress want to roll back the 2024 budget to 2022 levels, resulting in at least a 22% cut. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) asked agency heads to provide an outline of how proposed right-wing budget cuts of 22% would impact different programs and the results are chilling:1
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Head Start funding reductions would eliminate 200,000 slots for children in families with low incomes.
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101,000 child care slots would be eliminated.
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More than 1 million older adults would lose meals -- in many cases their only meal of the day.
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640,000 families would lose their housing vouchers out of the 2.3 million households now using vouchers; other cuts in affordable housing programs would affect hundreds of thousands of additional households.
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Anything over a 6% cut in the current budget would be “catastrophic” for the Social Security Administration. For every $100 million cut, 1,000 people would have to be laid off -- the equivalent of closing 40 field offices, at a time when people with disabilities are already forced to wait many months for their applications to be processed.
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The funding reduction for K-12 education in low-income communities would equal the loss of 60,000 teachers.
These cuts would represent a drastic step back for our economy and society. We’re fighting back, rallying the American people in support of critical human needs programs. Chip in $5 to help CHN demand Congress invest in our families and communities, paid for by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share.
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Everyone deserves to live with dignity. The proposed cuts are morally reprehensible and go against our nation's values. They are also dangerous; they would threaten the health and economic stability of families and communities. The United States is the richest country on earth and -- as President Biden’s budget has shown -- there is no reason why we all can’t share in the prosperity.
Thank you for all you do to support human needs programs,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 Responses to DeLauro Letters on Potential Impacts of Proposed House Republican Cuts
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