Trump’s War on Children: <span class="caps">DOGE</span> Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More

Cuts by the Trump administration are putting children at risk, according to a new report by ProPublica. The administration has cut funds and manpower for child abuse investigations, enforcement of child support payments, child care and more. On top of that, Head Start preschools, which offer free child care to low-income parents, are being severely gutted. Democracy Now! speaks with ProPublica reporter Eli Hager on his investigation into Trump’s “War on Children.” “It wasn’t just cuts to these more liberal-coded programs like support for child care and direct assistance to lower-income families with children, but also these programs that have much more support across the political spectrum, like funds and staffing for investigating child abuse and Child Protective Services,” says Hager.

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$3 billion yanked from #schools to help pay for #Trump’s tax cuts

Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
Apr 22, 2025

"The Trump administration’s decision to claw back pandemic relief funds from schools is part of the administration’s attempt to find savings in the federal budget to offset the extension of Trump’s 2017 #TaxCuts, which would 'add an estimated $4.6 trillion to the debt over the next decade...."

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#TaxTheRich #NoTaxCutsForBillionaires #FundSchoolsNotSpaceX #TrickDown #USPol #TrumpSucks #TrumpIsABully #CharacteristicsOfFascism

$3 billion yanked from schools to help pay for Trump’s tax cuts

At the end of March, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a letter to state school officials across the country declaring that the federal government was abruptly ending pandemic-related relief funding a year early.

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