{"id":38816,"date":"2025-04-15T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-urged-to-release-nearly-400m-allocated-to-help-families-combat-heat\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:59:11","slug":"rfk-jr-urged-to-release-nearly-400m-allocated-to-help-families-combat-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-urged-to-release-nearly-400m-allocated-to-help-families-combat-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr urged to release nearly $400m allocated to help families combat heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Trump\u2019s administrations \u2018efficiency\u2019 drive, staff running decades old program for energy assistance laid off<\/p>\n<p>Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is facing new demands to release almost $400m allocated by Congress to help low-income US families keep the air conditioning on this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The funds are under threat after the staff running a decades old program were fired \u2013 as part of the Trump administration\u2019s so-called \u2018efficiency\u2019 drive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/15\/rfk-jr-energy-assistance-heat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Trump\u2019s administrations \u2018efficiency\u2019 drive, staff running decades old program for energy assistance laid off Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is facing new demands to release almost $400m allocated by Congress to help low-income US families keep the air conditioning on this summer. The funds are &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr urged to release nearly $400m allocated to help families combat heat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-urged-to-release-nearly-400m-allocated-to-help-families-combat-heat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr urged to release nearly $400m allocated to help families combat heat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}