Trump Team Votes to Cut Poor People Off from Cellphone Service to Help Fund Rich People's Tax Cut

November 17, 2017

Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress

Poor people would be cut off from their communities and from potential employers under a proposal approved Thursday to dramatically shrink a program Ronald Reagan created to subsidize phone service for the destitute.

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