Trump admin. abruptly delayed a $13.5M grant to house human trafficking victims just 5 days after saying that 'non-citizens' could be served by the program. - SuzyKhimm / strickdc
Brown, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs."A decision to postpone these housing and services grants into oblivion will be a decision to waste anti-trafficking resources already on the table."
Advocates for victims of human trafficking were confused and taken aback by the sudden move after spending two years of waiting for the federal government to move forward with the initiative, and months of developing their own proposals for grant funding.
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