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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Trump administration sent shockwaves through the US mental health and drug addiction system late Tuesday, sending hundreds of termination letters, effective immediately, for federal grants supporting health services.

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The worst individual to ever a country's healthcare system, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is going to let needy people go untreated which result in further sickness, suicides, or homicides. All US Senators who confirmed this anti-vax mountebank as Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) should be beaten in place.

"We are definitely looking at severe loss of front-line capacity," said Andrew Kessler, head of Slingshot Solutions, a consultancy firm that works with mental health and addiction groups nationwide. "[Programs] may have to shut their doors tomorrow."

Kessler said he has reviewed numerous grant termination letters from "Salt Lake City to El Paso to Detroit, all over the country."

Ryan Hampton, the founder of Mobilize Recovery, a national advocacy nonprofit for people in and seeking recovery, told NPR his group lost roughly $500,000 "overnight."

"Waking up to nearly $2 billion in grant cancellations means front-line providers are forced to cease overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, and peer recovery services immediately, leaving our communities defenseless against a raging crisis," Hampton said. "This cruelty will be measured in lives lost, as recovery centers shutter and the safety net we built is slashed overnight. We are witnessing the dismantling of our recovery infrastructure in real-time, and the Trumpf junta will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows."

Meanwhile firearms continue to proliferate throughout the US which averages six to eight mass shootings a week. RFK's draconian cut is a continuation of Republican Party cruelty to the vulnerable, weak, poor, and dispossessed. Dummkopf Trumpf does not care one whit for the American people. Not one iota.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-14 02:45 PM | Reply

But they keep telling me that mental health is the reason we have so many shootings here in the only country that has so many shootings. So much for that argument.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-14 02:46 PM | Reply

We don't have a gun problem in this country. We have a mental health problem and need to provide better care. - MAGATS
Cancel funding for mental health treatment! - Also MAGATS

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-01-14 02:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The GOP is a Death Cult.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-14 03:44 PM | Reply

RATFUCK JR IS A QUACK

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-14 03:52 PM | Reply

Because mental health treatment causes autism?

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-14 03:58 PM | Reply

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