Services for victims in Minnesota threatened under the federal freezing of financing, cuts – inforum

Sf. Paul – Victim services in the whole state said on Monday afterwards that President Donald Trump’s administration are cut, warning that they may need to cut services, be personal or completely dissolve.

The groups supporting the victims of the attack, abuse and other crimes in the state declared on Monday, February 24, that the federal funds are still frozen, are blocked subsidies and eliminated financing portals,

Despite judges who temporarily block

An order to interrupt federal funds.

Groups – Minnesota Coalition against Sexual Aggression, Minnesota Indian women’s sexual aggression, Minnesota violence, Sacred Circle, Minnesota Alliance and Children’s Alliance – they said they’ll soon start Services, to dissolve altogether.

Marcia Milliken, the executive director of the Minnesota Children’s Alliance, who supports children who are victims of abuse, said the organization is financed by 90% Federal and that its 13 centers in the state are provided to lose $ 4.5 million in the following fiscal year of federal federal financing reductions.

Artika Roller, executive director of the Advocacy Cornerstone Service, which provides support for Bloomington’s assault and traffic victims, said Cornerstone was notified on Monday that federal funds will be cut and the next day at 5:00 pm. .

Guadalupe Lopez, the executive director of Minnesota without violence, who focuses on the victims of domestic abuses, said that the organization is around 80% financed federally, and if he loses funds, he will completely dissolve.

On January 27, Trump asked for freezing federal funds to assess if nearly $ 3 trillion

Of these funds align

his priorities. The two -page memory at the White House Management and Budget Office states that the federal agencies must temporarily interrupt all the activities related to “external help, non -governmental organizations, Dei, gender ideology have also woken Green Deal.”

The next day, a federal

The judge was temporarily blocked

freezing and on January 31, a separate federal

Judge ordered an additional block

to frost. Despite these judicial orders, Minnesota Advocacy groups said on Monday that funds are still stopped.

The representative of Kelly Moller, DFL-Shoreview, said that the funds are threatened under the Law on violence against women, the executive order to repeal the Dei efforts, the law of victims of crime and the law of victims of children.

Moller said that Voca funds have already registered a 42% reduction in funds from the federal government from 2023 to 2024, and officials are now expecting a higher one. On February 6, the Department of Justice

Office for Violence against Women

Organizations advised to stop requests for federal subsidies and eliminate information about existing subsidies.

“So what we discover is that, although the federal judge has blocked the freezing, in some cases, the money still does not enter, it cancels subsidies … Sometimes, the portals are broken,” Senator Erin Maye Quade, DFL- Apple Valley, said after press conference.

Minnesota MPs say they will request the passage

HF1082

and

SF852

which would allocate state subsidies for financing services that work with crime victims. Moller, the head of the draft law in the Chamber, said that the draft law is to be bipartisan, but does not believe that the Republicans take the reductions of federal funds seriously.

“I think there is an opinion that we react excessively or hysterically in this regard. We do not react excessively. This is serious. The programs have already begun to make changes, ”said Moller. “I know that my colleagues on the other side tell me they care about the services for the victims – my bill is bipartid – but when we raise the discounts at the federal level, we are laughing.”

The leader of the Senate minority, Mark Johnson, R-East Grand Forks, said on Monday that democrats created a problem with crime when things passed

The law on rehabilitation and reinvestment in Minnesota,

Which facilitates the eligibility for early release based on how “time is spent” in prison, not “how long it served”.

“We continue to see Democrats to try to blame President Trump for the problems they created,” Johnson said. “They spent $ 18 billion surplus, raised taxes by $ 10 billion, and left us with a deficit of $ 5 billion. We have major issues to approach at home because of the policies of the Democrats, and the Democrats would prefer to do anything but talk about them. “

Mary Murphy joined the Forum Communications in October 2024 as a correspondent of the Minnesota state. It can be accessed by E -Email at [email protected].