The administration cited without evidence “potential” widespread fraud in its move to cut off funds for child care subsidies and other support for low-income families.
In New York, for example, the federal dollars for the cash assistance program, TANF, also fund emergency homeless and domestic violence shelters, where victims take refuge from their perpetrators. The loss of the funds would force many shelters to close, said Michael Polenberg, a vice president of Safe Horizon, a nonprofit that provides services for victims of domestic violence.
Without the funding, “tens of thousands of domestic violence survivors and their children” would be “forced to make impossible choices to stay in an abusive household and face a violent encounter or to be homeless,” Mr. Polenberg said in an interview.
“Freezing federal funding based on what, an assumption, a hunch?” he added. “It’s crazy.”
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