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BoRaGard

(5,086 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:20 AM 20 hrs ago

G.O.P. makes war on America's children

republicons like to pretend they are the "family values" party -- but that's just another of G.O.P.s systematic lies.

The Trump Administration’s War on Children - ProPublica - April 23, 2025

"The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more...

"...The administration has laid off thousands of workers from coast to coast who had supervised education, child care, child support and child protective services systems, and it has blocked or delayed billions of dollars in funding for things like school meals and school safety.

"These stark reductions have been centered in little-known children’s services offices housed within behemoth agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice, offices with names like the Children’s Bureau, the Office of Family Assistance and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. In part because of their obscurity, the slashing has gone relatively overlooked..."

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse

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SheltieLover

(66,752 posts)
2. Not to mention refusing the kids the little incidentals, you know, like food & gun control
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:26 AM
20 hrs ago

Irish_Dem

(68,459 posts)
3. America is a society which does not protect its young.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:28 AM
20 hrs ago

No childhood vaccines, school shootings, no research on child cancer, etc.

lark

(24,918 posts)
5. GOP makes war on every single American who is not white, rich, straight and reich wing - especially the last one.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:17 AM
18 hrs ago

They are actively trying to destroy us to enrich themselves - the assholes that they are!

Dem_in_Nebr.

(316 posts)
6. It's called
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:58 AM
17 hrs ago

institutionalized cruelty and Trump is no dummy. We like to think that he is nut his policy, as well as the rest of GOP"s, is to put this in place. It's the monetization of cruelty.

Karasu

(978 posts)
7. And yet, here they are, now trying to fucking BRIBE people into producing more children.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:09 PM
13 hrs ago

Maybe this country deserves its fate.

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