Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
www.motherjones.com
The budget proposal is the Trump administration's latest attack on services supporting abuse survivors.
  • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Id worry more avout the fact that you live in an authoritarian state, that’s decided to make an enemy of… let me check my notes… the rest of the planet.

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      18 hours ago

      Who do you mean by “they”? The nazi fucks are themselves the ones in charge.

    • Stabbitha@lemmy.world
      75·
      17 hours ago

      If we read the article, we learn:

      Tucked inside the 1,200-page appendix to the White House’s budget request to Congress is a proposal to eliminate a grant program, funded by the Agriculture Department and administered by the Department of Justice, that provides domestic violence shelters with money to support survivors’ pets. Advocates say the program, known as PAWS, helps fill a critical gap despite its relatively small budget of $3 million

      So we see that it actually is a budget issue, nobody’s issuing a directive saying animals are banned at these shelters – the headline is misleading.

      We also see that the proposed budget cut is $3 million, which works out to almost a whopping 2¢ per taxpayer in the US.

        • breecher@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 hours ago

          That’s not the point. The Republicans are not doing this to save money. They are doing this for ideological reasons, namely that domestic violence is fine and there shouldn’t be any domestic violence shelters, because women should be subjugated to their husbands no matter what.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
        7·
        17 hours ago

        Thanks for adding context and hard evidence to the discussion. Fuck them twice as much for doing it this way. It’s the same amount of sabotage and half the accountability.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    381·
    18 hours ago

    A government and people that cared about protecting abused people would demand that shelters accept pets.

    In my jurisdiction pets were ruled to have custody rights meanwhile the land of the free wouldn’t elect a woman and won’t stand up for each other. Enjoy your Handmaid’s Tale, stop trying to push it on other countries.