…The expected cuts to #RentalAssistance reflect #Trump’s broader desire to *shrink the footprint of government & its reach into Americans’ lives* [more like kill the #poor, party with the #rich, eradicate the middle], a project that includes sharp #cuts to federal #antipoverty programs viewed as *too generous or wasteful*.
“DWP PIP cuts under fire as Labour MP goes rogue and launches huge petition”
by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“[Richard] Burgon has initiated a petition titled ‘Tax Wealth – Don’t Cut Disability Support,’ which has already attracted over 40,000 signatures, indicating robust support from the public”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/04/14/dwp-pip-petition-cuts/
14 years of Tory cuts and austerity and now Labour are in power it is more of the same. It simply doesn't work. Cuts do not generate growth. If people have less money in their pockets, they spend less, businesses suffer, jobs are lost and the tax take decreases. This doesn't feel like rocket science so why does it feel so difficult for government?
#Cuts
#Austerity
#Tory
#Labour
"Up to 1.2 million people with disabilities will lose thousands of pounds under the government’s welfare overhaul, experts have said, as campaigners warn the plan will exacerbate the country’s mental health crisis and push more children into poverty."
"Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill and disabled people will become “invisible” and cut adrift from local support services as a result of the government’s £5bn programme of disability benefit cuts."
This is just horrible. I feel so awful for the people this involves. Potentially ten thousand civil servants and contractors from Goddard alone!
Then the missions that will be just halted, even though they've been fully assembled (Nancy Grace Roman telescope)!
I must've missed the talk about this yesterday.
The U.N. humanitarian agency say it is cutting 20% of its staff because of “brutal cuts” in funding that have left the organization with a nearly $60 million shortfall. Read more from @AssociatedPress
https://flip.it/j9gEeq
#UN #Aid #Humanitarianism #Funding #Cuts #Staff
“DWP benefits being cut are the thin end of the wedge. It’s Labour’s ideology which is terrifying”
by Rachel Curtis in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“There are reams of evidence showing how disabled people have died in the most appalling conditions following inhumane treatment from the DWP. [..]. The horror of what is coming is unimaginable”
#politics #alt #socialsecurity #cuts
Heather Cox Richardson Social Security Death Spiral 4/6/2025
Try 90% "mistakes" and not really mistakes if you are *planning* to rehire within days. There is absolutely no reason to believe these are mistakes. This is intentional sabotage.
He is dumb as a doorknob!
“Wes Streeting and the Guardian just got the treatment they deserved at a live event”
by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“Therefore, it was good to see him [Streeting] getting shouted down by the very people his government’s policies will be affecting. And, we can expect to see even more of this type of resistance over the next few months”
https://www.europesays.com/1944862/ DOGE cuts to Social Security Administration will harm 4M New Yorkers #benefits #cuts #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #Musk #NewYorkers #schumer #Seniors #SocialSecurity
“Labour’s proposed cuts to education will be the ‘worst in a generation’: Going backwards”
by James Wright in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“On the back of years of Tory austerity, the education sector is preparing for the ‘worst financial situation for a generation’ after chancellor Rachel #Reeves’ Spring Statement on 26 March. #Headteachers have already warned that schools face ‘death by a thousand cuts’”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/24/labour-education-cuts/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg
#Skwawkbox | #Labour plans to cut free school meals for infants, period products, arts and sport in #schools
This government is far worse than even I anticipated.
Reeves plans new cuts as economy sags | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reeves-plans-new-cuts-economy-sags
#UKPol #Cuts
#trump #donaldtrump #president #usa #unitedstates #america #doge #musk #education #departmentofeducation #cuts #closure #dictator #dictatorship
It’s Trump’s ultimate plan. Dumb America down to create the illusion he’s the most educated man in the land.
America… you need to start asking yourself some very serious questions. What type of leader acts like this? Today he’s closing down the Department of Education, but what will tomorrow bring? The Nazi style burning of books?
“The Health and Disability Green Paper will boost Universal Credit for up to four million families without any health conditions or disability by about £3 a week – that’s 43p a day. But these tiny gains are overshadowed by reforms that risk causing major income losses for those who are too ill to work or those who no longer qualify for disability benefits.”
#UKPol #Labour #Cuts #Disability #Benefits
https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-labour-mp-clashes-with-think-tank-he-used-to-run-over-benefit-cuts/
“The TUSC [Trade Union and Socialist Coalition] is rallying against Starmer in the face of cruel #DWP #cuts”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“#May #elections 2025 – the first major electoral test for the #Starmer government. The #TUSC have already approved candidates in 10 of the 23 council areas where elections will take place on 1 May 2025. However, we need more. We need to spread the anti-austerity and anti-war message [..]”
