The Trump administration made sweeping cuts to substance abuse and mental health programs this week — and then abruptly reinstated the funding. On Tuesday, the Health and Human Services department canceled about 2-thousand grants representing nearly 2-billion dollars in funding for organizations that offer substance abuse and mental health services. But those cuts were reversed […]
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HHS causes confusion in cutting, then reinstating health grants
The Trump administration made sweeping cuts to substance abuse and mental health programs this week — and then abruptly reinstated the funding. On Tuesday, the Health and Human Services department canceled about 2-thousand grants representing nearly 2-billion dollars in funding for organizations that offer substance abuse and mental health services. But those cuts were reversed by Wednesday. The result was chaos and confusion among grant recipients nationwide, some of whom began laying off employees after learning about the funding cuts.
