All staff are fired in LiHeap

Trump management left a $ 4.1 billion program to pay the heat and cooling bills of low-income households in the United States.

Fights In 1981, paralyze the low-income home energy assistance program created by Congress and provoked instead of high utility documents for about 6.2 million people from Texas during the frigid winter and hot summer.

“They did not fire everyone,” said Mark Wolfe, Executive Director of the State Energy Assistance Directors, the Executive Director of the State to ensure the state financing. “Or it was incredibly neat or intends to kill the program completely.”

The floors were part of A wider cleaning of about 10,000 employees on Monday From the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to reorganize agency sharply. About 25 employees he was supervising Energy assistance program also known as LiHeap. Mr. Wolfe said that all were all placed.

Congress $ 4.1 billion had confirmed For the program for the program of fiscal 2025 and about 90 percent of this money was sent to the states to help households fighting high heat costs in October. As the houses grow air conditioners, summer cooling has been left about $ 378 million to help. In the United States, heat waves are closer and more durable as a result of climate change.

Normally, the federal government sends money to government agencies after allocating funds using a complex formula and operates various reviews and inspections. Some states, like Maine, low-income families, use money to use money to replace fuel oil to heat their homes in winter. States also use the air using the air and provide an ambulance to the risk of helping households.

Now, although the Congress openly ordered the money spending of the federal government, it is not clear how the remaining funds are said to the states.

“If there is no staff, how do you separate the rest of this money?” Mr. Wolfe said. “My fear is that we have achieved this financial, but no one left to manage it, so we can not send it.”

Emily Hilliard, Emily Hilliard, a foreigner for the Department of Health and Human Services, “will continue to keep up-to-date with the federal law,” will be better placed in the desire of the Congress. “

Trump management has repeatedly tried to freeze or maintain the costs approved by the congress over the past two months. Those actions caused by a growing number of legal problems and Court rulings He said, it has a constitution.

The fires in the control of the energy assistance responded to several democratic deputies.

“When it is cold, what is achievable to achieve anyone who helps to help you get the heat fat to trade? In the Social Media Post.

Senator Edward Mary, the Massachusetts democracy, said he will try to open the program’s financing. “Eliminating all federal employees responsible for Lehap – it depends on millions of households hot and cool in winter – not reform. “This is a provocation.”

Maine’s Republican, Senator Susan Collins made a statement: “Senator Collins, Senator Collins, Senator Collins, Diheap will help the management of this program to affect the management of this program.”

One Education published in economic magazine Last year, about 17 percent of the United States, the revenue on energy, the researchers often found that researchers identified as a “severe” energy burden. The research found a strong connection between energy convenience and winter death.

“When the house temperature is less favorable, more people in every winter,” Seema Jayachandran is one of the authors of an economist and educators in Princeton, Wrote on Monday. “This is what he finds our analysis during a period of time in Liheap. Without a lehapp, the effect would likely be larger.”