Heating assistance is one of many domestic programs Trump would like to reduce or eliminate in order to boost military spending and build a wall along the Mexican border. “If we didn’t need it, I would let other people use it.”Unlike Medicaid or food stamps, heating assistance isn’t an “entitlement,” meaning not everyone who is eligible to receive benefits does. Only 19 percent of eligible households are expected to get assistance this year, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association. He’s going to apply for heating assistance again. Trump’s Office of Management and Budget sent Capitol Hill leaders a list of spending “reduction options” for the rest of the fiscal year, including a 10 percent cut in LIHEAP funding.

Source: Huffington Post April 07, 2017 19:00 UTC