The Trump AdministrationThe work ministry announced on Thursday to suspend the operations of the Corps training program, encouraged bipartisan criticism.
“The Department should have attempted to repair them, but instead of cooperating with performers and help students, they just decided to send students,” Steve Cohen, Democrat Tennessee, wrote in a statement. “The work department obviously does not have plans for an improved product or a new approach. This carefree approach will disturb the life of too much ambitious members of the future labor and should be condemned.”
Senator Susan Collins, Republican Maine, also said that “strong” opposes the pause of the program as part of the administration push to cut spendingReferring business centers in their country “Important support poles for some of our most unidential young adults.”
The Work department He announced a shift on Thursday, saying that “reflects the administration’s commitment to ensure that federal labor investments provide meaningful results and students and taxpayers.”
He claimed the program, created in 1964. years for the offer of free housing and Work training On teenagers and young adults with low incomes have delivered bad results.
“Corps for the job was created to help young adults build a path in a better life through education, training and community,” said the Lori Chavez-Desemer Secretary in the statement that will appear until the end of June. “However, the stunning number of serious incident reports and our deep fiscal analysis reveal that the program no longer achieves the results that students deserve.”
The department announced that the program amounted to a $ 140 million deficit last year. 2023. According to the Government, the program spent over $ 80,000 per student to achieve a 38.6 percent graduation rate.
Other critics were presented with the laws of pause the program, which served over 2 million people.
“Congress appropriated business for work, and Trump administration cannot just decide not to spend it because they want to make room for tax cuts for billionaires,” Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat Wisconsin, told in a statement for Hill.
The Management Boarded for other decreases to work, including back to cancel the hiatus held by the protection and health administration of the mine, although this week declined that effort.
Proposed 2026 budget Trump Administration Cutting 4,000 permanent officers from the departmentabout a quarter of his current labor force.