As part of Trump’s administrations ‘efficiency’ drive, staff running decades old program for energy assistance laid off
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is facing new demands to release almost $400m allocated by Congress to help low-income US families keep the air conditioning on this summer.
The funds are under threat after the staff running a decades old program were fired – as part of the Trump administration’s so-called ‘efficiency’ drive.
States and tribal nations are still waiting for funding allocated by Congress for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) – a chronically underfunded bipartisan program that helped around 6 million households keep on top of energy bills last year.
There are going to be shocking mass heat death events in the deserts, plains and southern US in the near future triggered by blackouts of the electrical grid from it being overstressed during a heatwave, please leave these places before is too late and you get stuck in hell on earth.
Conservatives are going to let you die.
