Congress is leaving as many as 16 million Americans without health insurance and making the deepest cuts in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“Maryland Democrats hate the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ What can they do if it passes?” July 3).
But that’s not all that’s going on in Washington. In the past week alone: $6 billion was withheld from after-school summer programs; a $12 million contract was canceled that pays private attorneys to represent detainees deemed mentally ill and cognitively incompetent; the Trevor Project, a special suicide prevention service for the LGBTQ community, was defunded; the U.S. website on climate change was shut down; and a critical bird banding lab and a bird breeding survey are slated for elimination under the proposed FY 2026 budget.
That’s in one week. So much more, like a 40% cut in National Cancer Institute funding, has already happened. Light is turning into dark before our very eyes. Attention must be paid.
— Herb Cromwell, Catonsville
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