‘We Can’t Spend Money on Programs Just Because They Sound Good’
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney explained Thursday afternoon why President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget cuts billions from the federal program that funds Meals on Wheels. For more than 40 years Meals on Wheels has provided important and life-saving food for millions of people each year.
“We’ve spent $150 billion on the programs since the 1970’s,” Mulvaney said of the umbrella program that includes Meals on Wheels funding. He added that those programs were identified as “just not showing any results,” in response to a question from NBC News National Correspondent Peter Alexander.
“We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good,” he added. “I can’t defend that anymore,” Mulvaney said, repeating that Meals on Wheels and associated programs “don’t work.”
“We’re not going to spend [money] on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that they’ve made to people.”
In response to another question, Mulvaney then included after school programs for children among those that aren’t showing results.
“They’re supposed to help kids who don’t get fed at home get fed so they do better in school. Guess what?” Mulvany told reporters, “there’s no demonstrable evidence they’re actually doing that.”
The assertion that programs like Meals on Wheels and afterschool programs that feed school children don’t work is actually and provably a lie. Period.
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