Trump wants to end a program that helps people in nearly every community in America
“The Community Development Block Grant was created by the federal government in the mid-70s as a compromise between liberals and conservatives. Liberals got a program that expends federal money to help low-income Americans; conservatives got a program that hands administration of the funds down to the local level, rather than having the federal government dictate how they’re used. ‘This was a Nixon-era creation,’ said Brett Theodos, senior research associate at the Urban Institute. ‘It was a response to the [Johnson] era where the government was much more interventionist in local redevelopments.’”