More than a million residents of San Diego County are in imminent danger of losing access to healthcare, housing, and even food as cuts to life-saving programs by the Trump administration continue.
Terra Lawson-Remer, the San Diego County Board of Supervisor’s acting chair, called on the county Monday to send a “notification of funding at risk” to all federally funded program beneficiaries, many of whom may be unaware of the impending threats to these services.
“This is how service disruptions are handled for everyday and emergency situations alike. The impacted person is notified by the service provider of the change ahead of time,” Lawson-Remer said in a statement.
“Clearly this is how our government must also inform its constituents. While the scale of these proposed cuts to services may be unprecedented, our government’s response and responsibility to provide notice should be obvious.”
Just as utility providers provide notice of service interruptions, the government must also follow a notification protocol when services are at risk of termination, Lawson-Remer added.
1.2 million people in San Diego County receive support from at least one federally-funded assistance program, which includes about 50,000 San Diegans currently receiving job training and financial assistance benefits, 400,000 San Diegans getting food assistance benefits, and nearly 900,000 people in the county who receive healthcare coverage through Medi-Cal.
“More than one in three people living in our county rely on federally funded programs to meet their basic needs. Healthcare, housing, food security, and jobs programs are all at imminent risk of termination by the Trump administration’s shocking budget cut proposals,” said Lawson-Remer.
“I’m calling for common sense communication from the County to the beneficiaries of these programs, and I’m calling for it to happen quickly.”
Lawson-Remer said that she will direct the County Chief Administrative Officer to develop a notification strategy to send notices to all federally funded program beneficiaries, which should include contact information for the White House and Elon Musk’s extragovernmental “Department of Government Efficiency.”
The CAO will be asked to report back with notification strategy options within 30 days.
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