Gallery: Melania Is Dining On Diamonds And Trump Is Cutting Funding For 'Meals On Wheels'. Really!?!

March 17, 2017 |

Haley Henschel

A popular program that delivers food to senior citizens who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals may be axed under President Donald Trump's new budget — and some people on Twitter are fuming.

According to Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney, Meals on Wheels — which provided meals to 2.4 million seniors and 500,000 veterans last year — just isn't worth the money.

About Haley Henschel

Haley is a writer, editor, and illustrator from Wisconsin, so please don't serve her an Old Fashioned unless it contains brandy. Outside of work, you'll find her aquascaping, getting bossed around by her bird, or planning another trip to Australia. She currently lives in Chicago, where she's having a hard time adjusting to the whole "no ketchup on hot dogs" thing. Feel free to send your pizza recs/Kardashian konspiracies her way. Currently reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

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