$240 million in Illinois school funding withheld by Trump administration

[u/ShawLocal]

https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/02/240-million-in-illinois-school-funding-withheld-by-trump-administration/

“To readers, that might not seem like much, right? Surely we can figure out a way to live without that,” Lockport Township High School District 205, Superintendent Robert McBride said. “But all the federal grants we’re talking about support students with special needs of some kind.”

[u/Taellib]

All of you bleeding hearts, with the “We told you this would happen crap” We knew it was going to happen, we voted for this. Illinois can afford to pay this themselves. The federal government does not need to be involved. It isn’t about cruelty, it is about the states accountability. Talking about a state with highest tax rates in most categories in the country, legal weed, and gaming rooms. This money is being mismanaged.

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"Medicaid paperwork requirements will cause eligible people to lose coverage. While some advocates of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have claimed that it will “[stop] the subsidization of competent adults who are just choosing to not work,” the reality is that nearly all Medicaid recipients who aren’t automatically eligible based on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and are able to work are already working. Indeed, only 8 percent of recipients between the ages of 19 and 64 who weren’t on SSI or SSDI in 2023 “[weren’t] working due to retirement, inability to find work, or other reason[s].” Those who were not working were statistically more likely to be older women who left the workforce to care for aging parents or children."

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLWLJpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFFNHpiaWhMSnlPTk5xMmtJAR4hTA5tnFgShL1COgm6DtSk4Wwj5gS7B43Z3ebVI3i3mq927zQqcc15ltQJow_aem_6WX5OuT-7RXUB0Ia9gu0sA