President Donald Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, provided a window into the administration’s priorities Thursday when he was asked about deep cuts in funding for federal Community Block Development Grants, which some states use to provide funding for Meals on Wheels. That’s the program that provides warm, nutritious meals to more than 2.4 million elderly and disabled people in the U.S. The meals are often delivered by volunteers to the homes of seniors who live alone or are shut-ins.
Mulvaney launched into a diatribe about “results” - he used the same word later when defending cuts to free and reduced school lunch programs - to explain that taxpayers can’t be expected to fund programs unless the government can show the money will “be used in a proper way.”
