Religion

muriel_volestrangler

(101,358 posts) Tue Feb 13, 2018, 05:09 PM Feb 2018

Trump Budget Proposal Would Funnel $1 Billion To Private, Mostly Religious Schools

President Donald Trump today proposed a $4.4 trillion federal budget for next year that would slash the Department of Education’s budget by about 5 percent – all while diverting $1 billion of the remaining money to fund private school vouchers and related schemes.

Advancing the misguided top priority set forth by Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, this latest budget proposal would divert a billion dollars in desperately needed public funds to private, mostly religious schools. That’s four times the amount Trump proposed for vouchers in his last budget.

https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/trump-budget-proposal-would-funnel-1-billion-to-private-mostly-religious

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It includes language that would prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from distributing family planning, Medicaid and other federal program funds to health care providers whose services include abortions, even though federal dollars already are prevented from directly funding abortion services. The language represents the far-right’s long-threatened attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading reproductive health care provider whose health centers serve 2.4 million people annually.

It also would also block federal funding from being used in support of the Washington, D.C., Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act (RHNDAA) that protects employees from discrimination based on their reproductive health decisions. Opponents of the D.C.-passed law falsely claim that prohibiting such discrimination violates religious freedom.