DOGE Cuts Causing Deep Pain in Kansas City
The DOGE budget cuts and policies are having a major impact in the Kansas City metropolitan area, reports ABC News:
Money once promised to the region for public health, environmental, diversity, food aid and an array of other programs has been axed, and thousands of local jobs are in jeopardy.
With nearly 30,000 workers, the federal government is the largest employer in the region. One longtime Kansas City economic researcher said he believes the region could lose 6,000 good-paying federal jobs, which in turn would wipe out thousands of others in service industries…
A U.S. Department of Agriculture grant revocation disrupted a historically Black neighborhood’s plan to expand its program growing fresh produce in a food desert. A nearby pantry reduced its monthly grocery allotment for those in need after federal cuts left food banks shorthanded…
The withdrawal of federal funding for new lab equipment and vaccines means the city may be less prepared for the next pandemic.
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