Trump administration fires staff of program that helps low-income homes pay for heat

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Source: ABC News/AP

April 3, 2025, 8:13 PM


The Trump administration has laid off the entire staff of a $4.1 billion program that helps millions of low-income households pay for heat during the winter, unnerving state officials who are now wondering whether they will still receive millions of dollars in expected federal payments.

The roughly two dozen workers who ran the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program were among 10,000 people fired as part of a dramatic restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association.

He said several senior employees who oversee the program, which serves about 6.2 million households annually, told him they were locked out of their building after arriving to work Monday. “The way they did it, there was no like warning,” he said.

On Thursday, 13 U.S. senators, including two Republicans, sent a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urging the administration to reverse its decision to cut the LIHEAP staff. They warned the terminations will undermine the agency's ability to provide a “crucial lifeline” for low-income seniors and families. The program had already delivered the bulk of its aid to the states for this fiscal year but had yet to distribute $378 million.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/trump-administration-fires-staff-program-helps-low-income-120470902

[underpants]

1. Wow. 12 people.

Talk about being petty.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Petty and probably deliberately aimed at blue states since they're predominantly in the colder north.

[brer cat]

2. They are destroying lifelines for millions of people.

Government assistance is vital. and to wipe it out suddenly is cruel and unnecessary. Chainsaw Musk and idiot RFK, with trump's blessing, are creating massive human suffering. That is not America.

[wolfie001]

4. Televangelism was designed to take from the poor, isolated elderly and transfer it to........

.....wealthy church leaders so they could expand their influence, bank accounts and help pay for their jets and private airstrips. This is just the final result of the poor saps and suckers that buy into the "Prosperity Gospel". You can still see these a-holes preaching on YouTube today espousing the exact same bullshit that was on the Tee Vee in 1980. All they talk about is how Trump saved America.

[lark]

5. I keep telling you they are killing the poor/working class "ON PURPOSE" and prove it more every day.

Thy think they can gt rid of lots of us and force the others to work for them,virtually for free, with no benefits and hardly any pay and no medical help. They want to make us a very desperate and hungry nation, just like Russia, with them as the overfed oligarchs who own everything and to whom no law applies.

[CountAllVotes]

6. I have no doubt I am on this list

They have made my main medication no longer available. I am sick w/withdrawals at this point.

They do not care. They want to get rid of me as I am a drain on their system.

I receive $1400 a month from SSA and am too old to be on SSDI at this point in my life.

The people doing this are greedy and hateful.

They are the ones that HATE America!

FUCK YOU tRUMP & MusKKK.

[New Breed Leader]

7. It's only a matter of time before they fire the staff at HUD

that makes it possible for people like me to live in affordable housing.