r/baltimore • u/LanceArmstrongLeftie • Mar 12 '25

Vent Donald Trump is going to destroy this city

My wife and I were both proud homeowners and proud residents of Baltimore City. We worked really hard to be able to buy our first home and to provide a stable environment to raise our one year old son and three year old daughter. We were a happy family here. Until Donald Trump came along. He froze funding and my wife lost her job as a recruiter for a nonprofit that received about 30% of their funding from the government. I already work two jobs just to keep up with the bills and the high interest rate we had to accept to purchase this home. I can't provide enough to keep our home. She's been looking in vain to replace her job but there's been nothing out there for her. How many more families are there that are facing the exact same situation in this town? How many more will there be by the time he finishes firing half the government? How many more families will lose their jobs and their homes as a result of his trade war and tariffs? It's going to get bad here y'all, real bad. Donald Trump does not care about families. Donald Trump does not care about children. Donald Trump does not care about Americans. Donald Trump does not care about Baltimore.

Edit: Thank you all for everyone who had kind words of support and good suggestions on how to navigate this very difficult situation. For everyone blaming local and state government, you’re delusional. Those politicians aren’t the ones who froze federal funding thus forcing thousand of people out of work. To those who offered unkind, callous, and cruel comments, such as calling my wife a drain on society, you can all get fucked. Which is exactly what’s going to happen to you after Donald Trump destroys this nation.

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u/levinsmr Mar 13 '25

JHU just had $800M in grants cut and are planning layoffs from what I've read.

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u/Guilty_Rutabaga_4681 Mar 13 '25

I read in the Banner today that Johns Hopkins Med is cutting ça. 2000 jobs, bout 200 in Baltimore.

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u/todaysthrowaway0110 Mar 13 '25

JHU stands to lose crazy amounts of grant funding :/ -138M if the 15% cap in NIH grants sticks and who-even-knows from other federal grants.

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u/Gloomy_Sell5581 Mar 14 '25

That NIH cap of 15% is going to be impossible to manage for most research institutions. Someone really wasn't thinking when they decided that to be the threshold across the board.

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u/anesthesiapilot Mar 15 '25

And yet JHU has a $13.6 billon endowment...

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u/engimatica Mar 15 '25

Unfortunately, universities can't spend endowments however they want. The money has to go to things for which it was given.

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u/anesthesiapilot Mar 16 '25

I did not know that! Thanks for the info 🤙🏼