Dawn Price, an executive director of Friendship Shelter, manages $160,000 in monthly rent checks for 79 individuals. In February, she faced disruptions to funding due to federal cuts freezing access to grants from the Trump administration. These swift government actions created instability in long-established nonprofit partnerships, affecting services such as public safety and education. Leaders express concern over the dismantling of services funded by taxpayers and the potential for deeper cuts. White House officials emphasized a shift from government funding to prioritizing economic resurgence and individual philanthropy.
Dawn Price signs rent checks worth about $160,000 every month for 79 people that her nonprofit helps house in Laguna Beach, California. Access was eventually restored but the episode took a toll.
In the early days of his second term, President Donald Trump froze, cut or threatened to cut a huge range of social services programs from public safety to early childhood education to food assistance and services for refugee resettlement.
This vast and interconnected set of programs funded by taxpayers has been significantly dismantled in just months, nonprofit leaders, researchers and funders say. And even deeper, permanent cuts are still possible.
Instead of government largesse that's often riddled with corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse, the Trump administration is focused on unleashing America's economic resurgence to fuel Americans' individual generosity.
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