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demmiblue

(39,107 posts)
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 03:28 PM Apr 2025

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes. [View all]

Costa Samaras
‪@costasamaras.com‬

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

‪isaac‬ ‪@sevier.io‬·1h
Confirmed.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...

CNN Health

Also terminated was the entire staff of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, according to Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. The program provides about $4 billion to help millions of Americans with their heating and cooling bills.

“It will definitely hamper program operations,” Wolfe said, noting that he doesn’t see how the agency can “allocate the remaining $387 million in funds for this year without federal staff. The program could well grind to a halt.”

April 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM



These people are evil.
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