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Amid a worsening national affordable #housing & #homelessness crisis,
#Trump’s admin is determined to reshape #HUD’s expansive role providing stable #housing for #LowIncome people, which has been at the heart of its mission for generations.

At a June congressional #budget hearing, #HUD Secretary Scott Turner argued reforms like time limits will fix *waste* & *fraud* in #PublicHousing & #Section8 voucher programs while motivating low-income #families to work toward self-sufficiency.

#Families, kids most at risk of losing #HUD housing w/Trump’s time limits

>1M #LowIncome households—most of them working families w/ #children —who depend on the nation’s #PublicHousing & #Section8 voucher programs could be at risk of losing their homes under the #Trump admin’s proposal to impose a 2-yr time limit on rental assistance.

That’s acc/to new research from NYU, obtained by AP, which suggests the time restriction could affect as many as 1.4M households….

apnews.com/article/hud-section

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People applying for coverage outside that period — for instance, because they lose a job or other insurance or need to add a newborn or spouse to an existing policy — would have to wait for all their documents to be processed before receiving government subsidies to help pay their monthly premiums. Today, they get up to 90 days of premium help during the application process, which can take weeks.

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For those with #ACA marketplace coverage, the #GOP plan would make it harder to enroll & to retain their plans.

Marketplace policyholders would be required to update their income, immigration status & other information each year, rather than be allowed to automatically reenroll — something more than 10 million people did this year. They would also have less time to enroll; the bill shortens the annual open enrollment period by about a month.

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#Rural #hospitals typically operate on thin profit margins & rely on #Medicaid tax payments to sustain them. Researchers from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for #Health Services Research who examined the House bill concluded it would push more than 300 rural hospitals — many of them in Kentucky, Louisiana, California & Oklahoma — toward service reductions or closure.

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State experiments with #WorkRequirements have been plagued with administrative issues, such as eligible enrollees' losing #coverage over paperwork problems, & budget overruns. Georgia's work requirement, which officially launched in July 2023, has cost >$90 million, with only $26 million of that spent on #health benefits, according to the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research organization.

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The withholding of dollars on Tuesday threw #school district budgets into uncertainty, with only weeks to go before the start of school in many parts of the country.

Heidi Sipe, the superintendent in Umatilla, Oregon, a #LowIncome, #rural district, said her district’s after-school program has traditionally gone until 4:45 or 5:30 p.m. & was fully funded through federal dollars.

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The bill would extend the #Trump #TaxCuts passed by #Republicans in 2017, preventing a potential hike in rates at the end of this year when the current provisions were to expire. Rs are offsetting some of those costs w/cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or #SNAP, along w/major changes to #Medicaid, the joint federal & state program that provides #healthcare for ~70M #LowIncome, #elderly & #disabled Americans. Early estimates suggest at least 11M people could lose coverage.

#Idaho doctor & patients sue over new law halting public #benefits to #immigrants in US unlawfully

An #Idaho doctor & 4 residents are challenging a new state #law that halts some of the few public benefits available to people living in the US unlawfully, including a program that provides access to lifesaving #HIV & #AIDS #medication for #LowIncome patients.

#law #PublicHealth #immigration #Trump #judiciary
apnews.com/article/immigration

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#Kagan writes: "Under our #nondelegation precedents, #Congress sufficiently guided & constrained the discretion that it lodged with the #FCC to implement the universal-service contribution scheme. And the FCC, in turn, has retained all decision-making authority within that sphere, relying on the ‘corporation’ only for nonbinding advice. Nothing in those arrangements, either separately or together, violates the Constitution."

#law #SCOTUS #ERate #phone #internet #subsidies #LowIncome
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The next opinion is #FCC v. Consumers' Research [anti-woke folk]

It is by Justice #Kagan, & the vote is 6-3 again. #Gorsuch dissents, joined by #ClarenceThomas & #Alito.

supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd

It holds that neither #Congress's delegation of #power to the FCC or the FCC's delegation of power to the private corporation violated a theory known as the #nondelegation doctrine.

#law #SCOTUS #ERate #phone #internet #subsidies #LowIncome
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There are 6 cases remaining:

#FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton — #Texas law that requires #porn sites to verify age.

#FCC v. Consumers’ Research — consumer *protection* group devoted to fighting “#woke” corporations contends that E-Rate phone & internet subsidies for #LowIncome communities violates the #nondelegation doctrine

#SCOTUS #law
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scotusblog.com/2025/06/remaini

SCOTUSblog · The cases that remainBy Amy Howe
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On Thurs #SCOTUS, by a 6-3 vote, agreed.

#Gorsuch wrote for the majority.

Since 1976, federal #law has prohibited using federal #Medicaid funding for #abortion services w/limited exceptions for #rape, #incest, & life-threatening complications. But Medicaid reimburses "any qualified medical provider" for non-abortion services, & in #SouthCarolina, a state w/ a shortage of primary care providers, #PlannedParenthood has long provided routine #medical services for #LowIncome residents….

#Maine joins 20 states to challenge #Trump administration funding cuts

by MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
Wed, June 25th 2025

BOSTON (AP) — "Attorneys general from more than 20 states, including Maine, and #WashingtonDC filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging billions of dollars in funding cuts made by the Trump administration that would fund everything from crime prevention to #FoodSecurity to #ScientificResearch.

"The lawsuit filed in Boston is asking a judge to limit the Trump administration from relying on an obscure clause in the federal regulation to cut grants that don’t align with its priorities. Since January, the lawsuit argues that the administration has used that clause to cancel entire programs and thousands of grants that had been previously awarded to states and grantees.

" 'Defendants’ decision to invoke the Clause to terminate grants based on changed agency priorities is #unlawful several times over,' the plaintiffs argued. 'The rulemaking history of the Clause makes plain that the (Office of Management and Budget - #OMB) intended for the Clause to permit terminations in only limited circumstances and provides no support for a broad power to terminate grants on a whim based on newly identified agency priorities.'

"The lawsuit argues the Trump administration has used the clause for the basis of a 'slash-and-burn campaign' to cut federal grants.

" 'Defendants have terminated thousands of grant awards made to Plaintiffs, pulling the rug out from under the States, and taking away critical federal funding on which States and their residents rely for essential programs,' the lawsuit added.

"The White House's Office of Management and Budget did not immediately respond to a request made Tuesday afternoon for comment.

"#RhodeIsland Attorney General Neronha said this lawsuit was just one of several the coalition of mostly Democratic states have filed over funding cuts. For the most part, they have largely succeeded in a string of legal victories to temporarily halt cuts.

"This one, though, may be the broadest challenge to those funding cuts.

" 'It’s no secret that this President has gone to great lengths to intercept federal funding to the states, but what may be lesser known is how the Trump Administration is attempting to justify their unlawful actions,' Neronha said in a statement. 'Nearly every lawsuit this coalition of Democratic attorneys general has filed against the Administration is related to its unlawful and flagrant attempts to rob Americans of basic programs and services upon which they rely. Most often, this comes in the form of illegal federal funding cuts, which the Administration attempts to justify via a so-called agency priorities clause.'

"#Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said the lawsuit aimed to stop funding cuts he described as indiscriminate and illegal.

" 'There is no ‘because I don’t like you’ or ‘because I don’t feel like it anymore’ defunding clause in federal law that allows the President to bypass Congress on a whim,' Tong said in a statement. 'Since his first minutes in office, Trump has unilaterally defunded our police, our schools, our healthcare, and more. He can’t do that, and that’s why over and over again we have blocked him in court and won back our funding.'

"In #Massachusetts, Attorney General Andrea Campbell said the U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated a $11 million agreement with the state Department of Agricultural Resources connecting hundreds of #farmers to hundreds of food distribution sites while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA] terminated a $1 million grant to the state Department of Public Health to reduce asthma triggers in #LowIncome communities.

" 'We cannot stand idly by while this President continues to launch unprecedented, unlawful attacks on Massachusetts’ residents, institutions, and economy,' Campbell said in a statement."

Read more:
wgme.com/news/local/maine-join

wgme.com · Maine joins 20 states to challenge Trump administration funding cutsBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
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Last week, the WSJ editorial page published an editorial headlined “The Medicaid Scare Campaign.” The thesis is that the #Medicaid cuts would “improve healthcare by expanding private insurance options, which provide better access & health outcomes than Medicaid.”

This would be, as they say, huge if true: The #GOP has found a way to give #LowIncome Americans better #healthcare while saving hundreds of billions in taxpayer money.

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The agency kept #Covid shots o
the schedule for children 6 months to 17 years old with a new condition. #Children & their caregivers will be able to get the #vaccines in consultation with a doctor or provider, which the agency calls “shared decision-making.”

The shots will also continue to be available under those terms to about 38 million #LowIncome children who rely on the #Vaccines for Children program, acc/to an emailed update from the #CDC Friday.

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#Republicans on the party's right flank had pushed for deeper #spending #cuts to lessen the #budget impact, but met resistance from centrists who worried that would fall too heavily on the 71 million #LowIncome Americans enrolled in #Medicaid.

#MikeJohnson made changes to address conservatives' concerns, pulling forward new #WorkRequirements for Medicaid recipients to take effect at the end of 2026, 2yrs earlier than before. That would kick SEVERAL MILLION people off the program.