Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
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Are school shootings about to go up? Opportunity to do even more trauma on a community that another white angry boy (not always) feels to be the victim of?
Doesn't seem legal AT ALL but it gets done anyway and the damage is done by the time it is ruled illegal by a judge. The pattern continues and the chaos consumes the really important social programs.
Right. It’s not the guns, it’s me mental health. We dgaf about the mental health. Same old shit with GOP. Yet this country is full of fools and idiots who believe them.
For far too long the right has promoted the idea that public education is over priced. The arguments are many and varied, but what it boils down to, among other things, is education funding is a big pot of money that they want their hands on.
Republicans pretend to care about children. Whenever there is school gun violence they blame it on mental illness. Yet they just cancelled the very help that deals with youth mental health issues. Funds granted by Republicans in Congress.
Make it make sense!
Like the moaning about funding Ukraine instead of helping our veterans. Then they prove they don't want to fund Ukrane and also cut the help for veterans.
Or moaning that why are we giving foreign aid when we have so many homeless, who Republicans have time and again shown they want to do jack squat for anyway other than arrest them for existing in public places.
Not so fun fact: From the 2000–01 to 2021–22 school years, there were 1,375 school shootings at public and private elementary and secondary schools, resulting in 515 deaths and 1,161 injuries. Why are MH counselors not needed?
Every time I see Police protecting Teslas from paint, I think of that 2nd grader in Uvalde calling 911 repeatedly over 1 & half hours - saying" please help - he is shooting us"- until he killed her.
I guess her Death didn't matter after all.
How are cars more important than children? How?
The majority of Texas continue to vote for the Republicans. For over 20 years the Republicans have totally controlled the state, but continue to blame democrats for their demise. Make it make sense.
2nd Amendment folks been telling us for decades that it's all about the mental health situation and not about the guns. So, how are they feeling about this???
He proposed seizing weapons without due process. Just having the government go in and take them, no judge involved, when he felt the person was some sort of threat.
I can certainly see how that's a violation of yer rights. Due process should always be inviolable.
Hard for me tae get my head round why on earth there are so many guns in citizen's hands though 🙁
Isn't mental health supposed to be the excuse, erm, reason, for school shootings? Does this cancellation mean that the DoE wants school shootings to continue?
Will this free up some mental health professionals so the Trump administration can get the help they need? How can we expect children to be mentally healthy when they’re living in a country ran by the least sane people in the northern hemisphere, if not the world?
Yikes, you got pretty much everyone to believe that this is a bad thing.
The Education Department stated it would "re-envision and re-compete" the funds to focus on students' behavioral health needs."
And even your post said the money went to DEI. So it'll have better rules for it to be given
Everything the Trump administration does day after day is to destroy us. Systematically stripping us of all that’s good and needed for a healthy, thriving and functioning society. This action and every other coming from them must be fought!
Attn: you rich people enjoy trumpy’s tax cuts. When all is said and done, we are going to tax the living shit out of you. You’ll still be rich, but we will knock you down a peg or two.
Amazon needs to pay for roads its trucks drive on. You too, muck, you freeloader!
I'm sure Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Dan Patrick are all okay with this because they don't care about children. They are all racist. None of them are Christian's even though they may lie & say they are.
So, as Congress appropriates money, the Dept of Ed has, in its near infinite wisdom, decided that the money isn’t needed to complete the task that Congress mandated the money be spent on. Great? Then ALL school shootings that happen because a student was having a mental health crisis are YOURS. 1/2
Find your village or tribe so you and your children have that shoulder to lean on and the support that'll be helpful to get through a crisis like a school mass shooting.
The media industry is so inept at fact-checking and reporting. He could write an executive order outlawing windmills and they’d report it word for word, as if it’s said and done, and fully enforceable.
It might as well he, the courts have been busy playing wack a mole with the Trump administration. By the time the court gets around to it, the damage has been done.
I’m thankful we have the courts. At the very least, to acknowledge the lawlessness of this administration. If it weren’t for Chuck Schumer, the gov’t would be shutdown and never re-open.
What is wrong with these people?! Why doesn’t this matter to them? If Trump wants to pay women/families $5k to get pregnant…why don’t their lives matter once they’re born?!
they want to erase every brown, black, indigenous people, Asians, Indians, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu out of USA- literally, historically, museums, University, Law Firms, Judges, and withholding every single $ allocated last year by congress that would benefit ANY OF ABOVE! USA IS RUSSIA NOW FOLKS!
🤮 have they at least found police officers that will do their job & stop school shooters instead of lallygagging around & putting handcuffs on brave parents doing their all to save their kids from more senseless violence & murder? ❤️🔥
Is this Admin going to wait 4 the next mass school shooting with fatalities & blame it on the shooters' mental health? This is an endless revolving door.
At 1 point Republicans shouted about the non-existent ACA "Death panels." But now, remove mental health services & common sense gun control.
This is yet another bipartisan Congressional action and according to law requires an act of Congress to overturn it. This lawless administration spits in the face of this nation’s democracy and protections more each day. It’s time to stop them in their corrupt tracks.
Republicans blame mental health for gun violence,not the fact they have spent decades shielding the gun lobby while these greedy parasites take their “donations”. Even now Trump is pushing to roll back the small amount of gun regulations that still exist. The blood on their hands doesn’t stop them.
The Republicans and the NRA had a choice to make after Columbine and instead of gun reform they doubled down and chose the guns over our kids. And they have been choosing the NRA and gun lobbies ever since🤷
…and Donnie 2Dolls & Republican butt kissers are all about more babies. Wonder how many will live with no vaccines or worse if t hey survive the placebo madness the can take a chance to survive a school shooting. Yes, parents want that life for their child. #IMPEACH & Vote better next election.
…which somehow serves as a justification for increasing the number of deaths that occur after birth, & fostering the social conditions that put people in crisis situations where abortion is the solution to begin with.
You’ll reduce abortions more by implementing progressive policies than punishment
They do not care about our kids. I remember saying after Sandy Hook (which was a very real tragedy) that if Congress doesn’t do something now, they never will. So far, I was right.
The first thing conservatives offer after a school massacre (after thoughts and prayers, of course) is that guns aren’t the issue, mental health is. So, with this decision, they either don’t believe mental health is the issue or don’t care.
They won't. Thoughts and prayers are their only "solution" to the problem. Remind me again how many school kids have been murdered in the last year. You lot and your bloody gun obsession SMH
So they won’t do anything to prevent school shootings by implementing stricter gun control laws, and now they won’t fund mental health professionals? They better start sending a lot more thoughts and prayers. Disgusting
This administration wants this nation kids to be dumb and dead because, wtf are they doing? Hey maga freaks, do u think this is right? F-ck every single one of you for voting that piece of freaking S-IT back into the White House!
These are not targeted cuts due to ideology as a lot of people assume. Instead they are simply trying to free up as much money as possible to give corporations and the wealthy a tax cut. Occam’s razor.
hey, at least hot wheels is working on the real threat the children in texas....that's right, he is banning social media for minors. that will make them safe now. what texas needs is another falling tree for him
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The amount of $ spent on political campaigns is disgusting - just so we can hear half-truths and lies. Re-direct some of that money to repair the real damage guns & mental health issues do!
NPR had its' funding cut because of headlines like this one - America can't be told what's going on or people might say mean things about the boss. How's Donald going to enjoy his day on the golf course? For cats sake!
I was telling people this over and over again during his first term. Anybody who mocked and name called Americans (among his other cruel behavior) clearly was anti Americans. Nobody listened.
This is what survival looks like ribs showing, spirit broken, yet still hoping for kindness. Every dollar you give puts food in their bowl and life back in their eyes. Help us heal what the streets have taken
With all the possible preventable diseases and shootings you may have to have six kids and get that medal they offer just to make sure one of them survives until adulthood.
Every penny of federal financial assistance (grants and agreements) is appropriated for a PUBLIC PURPOSE that support PUBLIC PROJECTS and PROGRAMS that benefit THE PUBLIC. Writing this in case some mouth-breathing dogetwerp would lead you to believe the benefit is for the government. No, skippy.
Oh no need for it, 49,000 suicides a year. 1.2 failed attempts. 2nd leading cause of teenage deaths. Here please meet your secretary of Education. Tell me who needs mental health care. Promoting domestic and stranger violence against women. Classy
Republicans say it’s not the guns it’s “mental health” causing school shootings, but then don’t want to fix that either. Maybe they aren’t, in fact, actually pro-life.
The irresponsible use of AI screening to suss out any grants that have culturally responsive, trauma-informed, DEI workforce enhancement-oriented language & then assume that grants are hidden drivers for "woke liberal agendas" is mindblowing to me.Our work is being halted & the consequences are huge
Yeah, well, even mentally ill children can take part in the New Golden Age of America and be trained to put those little tiny screws into phone motherboards while working side by side with Mom and Dad!
“School shootings are a mental health crisis, not a gun crisis!”
“Okay. Here’s $1 billion to fund mental health services in schools.”
“Now you’ve gone too far.”
Proof it was never about stopping the killings. How many times did we all hear "it's not the guns, it's the people behind the guns." They truly don't care about kids getting killed in schools.
so- the right says it's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people, but they don't want to address the mental health and social issues that cause people to kill people.
This only makes sense in Trump world.
Right, so when the next school shooting happens children will live in panic and fear with no help and outreach from the schools. Or the next gun toting kid will not get treated before he/she opens fire.
Schools have our kids for the biggest chunk of the day.
Schools are supposed to be safe places.
Kids aren’t supposed to die in schools.
If that $ isn’t going to schools, maybe Trump can tell us exactly where it will go.
My federal taxes are still the same.
Trump & his administration just keep screwing us every day. Taking away funding for mental health for victims of school shootings is just DISGUSTING & INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE! 🤬
Well. Shit. So we indoctrinate them into having active shooter drills since they can remember, their lives mean shit against gun rights, and then they're pressured to perform well in school from whenever to whenever plus AP classes plus work plus home plus what the fuck. WHAT THE FUCK.
The despot's animus towards and disregard for children are legendary. His actions against children have become even more sinister. Articles: "After 3 years of Trump, the kids are not alright." "Trump Administration Policies are Devastatingly Harmful to Children." He's destroying our future.
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FOX = Right state propaganda
Never said anything about Fox. I hate both sides.
It was always the guns.
Make it make sense!
There's a difference.
I guess her Death didn't matter after all.
How are cars more important than children? How?
Fuck Republicans.
Each and every goddamn one of them.
I fucking hate this.
Mental health availability should be THE most accessible thing.
Not American & baffled.
Hard for me tae get my head round why on earth there are so many guns in citizen's hands though 🙁
Me: So how is your party addressing the mental health problem?
Republicans: By canceling mental health funding!
Coming up on 3 years this month.
Shameful
The Education Department stated it would "re-envision and re-compete" the funds to focus on students' behavioral health needs."
And even your post said the money went to DEI. So it'll have better rules for it to be given
This is an illegal impoundment like all the other violation of congressional spending
These people are sociopathic cosplayers.
Amazon needs to pay for roads its trucks drive on. You too, muck, you freeloader!
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Email them through their websites.
Tell them this:
1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily.
2. Go see your constituents in the concentration camps in El Salvador.
Or don’t ask for money…
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There will be lawsuits
trump will lose
Rinse and repeat
Let the lawsuits begin.
I’m thankful we have the courts. At the very least, to acknowledge the lawlessness of this administration. If it weren’t for Chuck Schumer, the gov’t would be shutdown and never re-open.
At 1 point Republicans shouted about the non-existent ACA "Death panels." But now, remove mental health services & common sense gun control.
I wonder what they’ll do with those billions of dollars, poof!! The tRump administration would suddenly make it disappear
"Guns? No worries."
"Mental health care? Nah."
"Children? Huh?"
Prpof that Republicans do not care about our children.
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Repubs are useless do-nothings…
…at best
Why would they care about mental health?
If you’re not insanely wealthy, nothing about you matters to this admin and if you are, you can get whatever you need.
They NEVER do a goddamn thing about mental health.
My God, what's it going to take to get America to figure out that all they do is TALK and they NEVER do ANYTHING.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/rcna32168
#NoMoreRepublicans
Because they’re out to ruin our Country.
Anything that helps poor & middle-class America will be axed.
#oligarchy
#kleptocracy
If the federal gov't refuses to provide these funds, then the NRA should divert some of their campaign donations to this Texas school.
💯serious though - maybe a higher % tax-write off for NRA to donate to shooting victims?
The amount of $ spent on political campaigns is disgusting - just so we can hear half-truths and lies. Re-direct some of that money to repair the real damage guns & mental health issues do!
Also Republicans: “Let’s defend mental health.”
-MAGA mind
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no more mental health problems--IT'S THE GUNS.
“Okay. Here’s $1 billion to fund mental health services in schools.”
“Now you’ve gone too far.”
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
This only makes sense in Trump world.
How is this a good idea again?
Schools are supposed to be safe places.
Kids aren’t supposed to die in schools.
If that $ isn’t going to schools, maybe Trump can tell us exactly where it will go.
My federal taxes are still the same.