Office On Violence Against Women Grant Programs
Trump plans to eliminate 25 violence against women grant programs. The Department of Justice's violence against women grant programs. The office launched a.
The proposed elimination of these grants is cruel, and it neatly sums up Trump and his cohort’s of women who come forward with sexual and domestic violence allegations. “A man with is about to take over the federal government so it is sadly not surprising that he is gutting programs vital to protecting women from violence,” Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of women’s-rights group UltraViolet said in a statement. “With these cuts, Trump is also making it harder for law enforcement to protect women from predators like himself and.”. And these planned grant cuts look even more unconscionable when viewed alongside the other entities Trump wants to purge from the Justice Department. He’s proposed drastic cuts to the divisions that work on civil rights and the environment, and he wants to completely axe the Legal Services Corporation, which administers grants for low-income Americans who can’t afford legal assistance.
Trump’s plan also eliminates the, a small but important advocate for a more just and effective system of U.S. Law enforcement. Taken together, the cuts Trump has proposed to balance his budget send a clear message: the most vulnerable and the most in need of justice come last in Trump's America.
Donald Trump has big plans to reduce the federal budget. On Thursday morning that his transition team has been working off a Heritage Foundation blueprint and pulled together a list of government agencies they hope to wipe out. The plans include privatizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (so long, Big Bird), cuts in nuclear physics research at the Department of Energy, and ending money spent on the historic Paris climate agreement. The National Endowment for the Arts will disappear if Trump gets his way.
Trump apparently hasn’t told his Cabinet nominees that they’ll soon be in charge of diminished budgets. In total, Trump’s cuts to federal programs would reportedly slice $10.5 trillion in spending over the next decade. Add to the list of government programs on the possible chopping block: Violence Against Women grants in the Department of Justice. The office that handles those grants had a $480 million in 2016. As Twitter user Caroline Q., it currently oversees 25 grant programs that help women who have been victims of domestic violence.: Trump team is planning to ELIMINATE the DOJ’s 25 Violence Against Women grant programs (listed below).
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