already grappling<\/a> with homeless service cuts at the state and county level given budget constraints and LAHSA warned Trump\u2019s proposal would make matters worse.<\/p>\n\u201cIf anything, we need additional funding to cover rising costs, not fewer, to maintain our current momentum,\u201d the agency said Friday.<\/p>\n
The funding dispute over homelessness services is one front in a broader budget assault on California programs by the Trump administration. <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s proposal also asks Congress to eliminate millions in funding from state initiatives the White House is characterizing as wasteful, ineffective or \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cuts, if enacted, would cancel $4 billion in unspent funding for the state\u2019s high-speed rail project, which the White house called a \u201cboondoggle,\u201d and strip grants from the Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, which the budget criticized for \u201cactively working to dismantle systems of power and privilege that favor whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smaller items are also targeted on the White House\u2019s chopping block: a Los Angeles gelato festival, a dance building in Santa Cruz \u2014 which the White House dubs \u201cone of the richest cities in the nation\u201d \u2014 and a $3-million grant for a playground tied to an unspecified performing arts center in California.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s proposed cuts to California projects are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reshape federal spending priorities, largely by trading social programs for a massive military buildup.<\/p>\n
The president is asking Congress to approve $1.5 trillion for defense and to slash $73 billion from domestic programs, a massive restructuring that would leave states, including California, to absorb costs Washington no longer wants to carry.<\/p>\n
Trump made that vision explicit at a private Easter lunch at the White House on Wednesday, telling guests that the federal government should no longer be responsible for funding social programs that many Americans rely on.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t take care of day care. We are a big country,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe are fighting wars. We can\u2019t take care of day care.\u201d<\/p>\n
If states want to offer those services, Trump said, they should raise taxes to pay for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cMedicaid, Medicare, all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to take care of one thing: military protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
His proposed budget reflects that priority, which lawmakers will need to contend with as they grapple with the mounting costs of the Iran war and an economic fallout from a military operation that has left Americans paying more.<\/p>\n
Under the proposed budget, Trump is also seeking to make some investments in California projects.<\/p>\n
The White House, for example, is seeking $152 million from Congress to turn Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison, an idea the president has talked about for several years.<\/p>\n
He also called on Congress to establish a National Center for Warrior Independence at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Times staff writer Andrew Khouri, in Los Angeles, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0President Trump is singling out the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority as a cautionary tale about Democratic mismanagement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2076,111624,18143,1752,166,4110,111625,111623,48,52,51,6390,100288,47,50,49,4576,4747,225,1519,2805],"class_list":{"0":"post-251093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-california-program","10":"tag-care","11":"tag-congress","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-funding","14":"tag-homeless-assistance-service","15":"tag-housing-cut","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-lahsa","20":"tag-local-agency","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","23":"tag-los-angeles-news","24":"tag-program","25":"tag-service","26":"tag-state","27":"tag-trump","28":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}