By Gregory E. Sterling, dean, Yale Divinity School
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- Evangelicals and Christians who voted for Trump should be outraged that administration funding cuts will hurt charitable groups, including Christian organizations.
- …what is particularly alarming is that (the gutting of USAID) is destroying this humanitarian work with the tacit (if not explicit) support of too many people who cite the Gospels as their guide.
- Two of the largest Christian charitable groups that receive financial assistance from the U.S. government—Catholic Relief Services and World Vision—are heavily dependent on government funding to perform their lifesaving work. Both are now facing massive layoffs.
- Also disturbing to me are radical cuts to efforts by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide relief for areas hit by major disasters in the U.S., and layoffs at the Federal Housing Administration that threaten to disrupt its ability to provide the mortgage insurance on which millions of Americans depend.
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