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Chuck Darwin

On the first day of his second term in 2025, Trump declared a national energy emergency by executive order, saying that
“high energy prices … devastate Americans, particularly those living on low- and fixed incomes.”

Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright raised concerns about utility disconnections and outlined a mission to “shrink that number, with the target of zero.”

🆘Yet, the administration’s 2026 budget proposal zeros out funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or #LIHEAP,
the federal program that administers funding to help low-income households pay their utility bills.

🔥And on April 1, 2025, the administration laid off the entire staff of the LIHEAP office.
Gutting the federal office responsible for administering energy bill assistance will make it even harder for Americans to make ends meet.
theconversation.com/trump-move

The ConversationTrump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends and electricity prices riseThe problem of high energy prices and rising numbers of people unable to afford them isn’t lost on the Trump administration.
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Nonilex

#Trump’s budget proposes to eliminate entirely a $4.1 billion program that helps #LowIncome Americans pay their #heating & #cooling #bills. The proposal says that the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program [#LIHEAP] is “unnecessary” because Trump is planning to increase domestic #oil & #gas production & reduce #energy prices. Last month, the admin fired everyone working in the program’s office, which currently helps 6.2 million Americans nationwide offset high #UtilityBills.

#economy
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Josh

I am not exaggerating when I say this: this move will fucking kill people on fixed incomes and low income families this coming winter. I have multiple customers that literally *CANNOT* afford heat without their LIHEAP disbursements.

This motherfucker tanks the economy on purpose *and* takes away people's necessary support. The cruelty of it all. Of everything he does. Fuck

nbcnews.com/business/business-

NBC News · Entire staff responsible for utility aid included in HHS cuts, sources sayBy J.J. McCorvey
#LIHEAP#USPOL#Trump
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Will low-income families be able to keep the heat on? Will seniors have access to another meal on wheels? Will Medicaid continue? Will low-income children get breakfasts or lunches at school? Will children be able to go to Head Start?"

~ Amy Goodman

#Trump #Medicaid #FundingFreeze #MealsonWheels #DHHS #LIHEAP #SchoolLunchProgram #HeadStart #LowIncomeFamilies
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democracynow.org/2025/1/29/tru

Democracy Now! · “Complete Chaos”: Medicaid, Meals on Wheels & More on Chopping Block as Trump Freezes TrillionsBy Democracy Now!
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM:

The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federal program that provides financial heating assistance to qualified households in the form of a CASH or CRISIS grant. The assistance is available to help customers that are at/below 150% of the federal poverty income guidelines and demonstrate a heating burden. peco.com/my-account/customer-s #LIHEAP #Poverty #Utilities #Assistance #Pennsylvania

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CelloMom On Cars

"The poorest #Americans and minority communities already live in hotter neighborhoods and they are more likely to live in older, less insulated and drafty homes.

Many states don’t even offer the assistance [of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or #LIHEAP] for summer months, and those that do often run out of funds before the hottest days roll around. The program has been slow to adapt to #ClimateChange’s hotter summers."

apnews.com/article/heat-wave-a

AP NewsMillions struggle to pay AC bills in heat waves. Federal aid reaches only a fractionBy JESSE BEDAYN
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