'Extra Cruel': Trump Admin Ends Job Program for Seniors as Work Requirements Loom

[Brenda]

The Trump administration has reportedly terminated the Department of Labor's only job training program for low-income seniors, a decision that came as older Americans braced for new work reporting requirements under the Republican budget law enacted earlier this month.

Bloomberg Law reported Friday that the Labor Department "quietly ended" its Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), which helped low-income Americans aged 55 or older find part-time employment or job training at nonprofits and government agencies. The program, described as a bridge to full-time employment, served tens of thousands of people across the country.

Groups that received funding under SCSEP, such as the National Council on Aging and Goodwill Industries, "say the program stopped giving them money after June 30," according to Bloomberg Law, which reported that the Labor Department "hasn't made available the roughly $300 million set aside for national grant recipients."

The Trump White House has proposed zeroing out funding for SCSEP in its budget request for fiscal year 2026, smearing the program as an "earmark to leftist, DEI-promoting entities."

In a July 17 letter to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, a group of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) warned that the withholding of SCSEP funds has already had "devastating impacts," pointing to program grantees in several states that have been forced to furlough thousands of low-income seniors.

Oh look another $300 million disappeared. And blaming it on DEI is the most fucked up thing of all, you filthy Nazis.




https://www.commondreams.org/news/senior-job-training-program

[wcmagumba]

1. Please, can this guy do us a real favor and stroke out? I think JD will be just as bad or worse as president...

but I'm so sick of seeing Trump's ugly mug in the news all the time...Just a small request to the world...

[Brenda]

4. My neighbor still has a Harris/Walz campaign sign in her front yard.

She is white and her husband is black and we live in a very red state.

I was talking to her the other day and just blurted out "I wish he would just fucking die!" She slowly shook her head left to right and said but the system....I interrupted and said "I know there are many horrible people in this administration. But only CHUMP is the MAGA cult leader. When he's gone, they will fracture and lose all power!"

She said, "Okay, yeah, you are probably right about that."

[Codifer]

20. The bad side is

that tsf is but a token, a mannequin who does the bidding of the real fascist powers lurking behind in the shadows. Vance will not be effective at that task.

Those evil powers in the shadows, however, will find some loon to be their symbol and point person; after all, they found (groomed) reagan, both bushes, and the current ass clown.

[markodochartaigh]

2. It's a shame that many seniors

who are routinely discriminated against in the job market couldn't make the connection that diversity,equity, and inclusion was about them as well.

[B.See]

24. FINDING OUT, though

[House of Roberts]

3. Denying Medicaid without employment,

then denying job training and placement means only one thing: You don't deserve any aid and we're not going to help you, even if you WANT TO WORK.

[Brenda]

5. There is absolutely no fucking room for misinterpretation AT ALL

These white christian nationalists (Project 2025), just like NAZIS, are making sweeping changes in order to harm and really, to kill certain people. People they deem unnecessary and unworthy of not only getting a hand up in a racist, sexist world but unworthy of being allowed to live.

How can MAGA Americans NOT SEE THIS SHIT as normal people do???

Yeah, I know. Cult.

[pfitz59]

6. Eungenics rears its head again

The oligarchy wants to eliminate the 'weak' and 'undesirable'.

[Brenda]

8. I think there's enough evidence to show

that what you said is true.

These policies were rammed into place in the first 6 months. Chump friendly Supremes are allowing it to happen.

Who can really stop them?

[rubbersole]

7. Cult, and they support it.

Totally unaware they're just as useless as anyone not a billionaire to the billionaires. It has never been more obvious.

[Wiz Imp]

16. The work requirement does not apply to those 65 & older

[House of Roberts]

22. Well, good. Maybe they can survive from 55 to 65 without healthcare.

Bloomberg Law reported Friday that the Labor Department "quietly ended" its Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), which helped low-income Americans aged 55 or older find part-time employment or job training at nonprofits and government agencies.

[BoRaGard]

9. "Ha ha. Senior suckers. So many suckers and losers. Ha ha." - Krasnov (R-felon) & GOP

[cannabis_flower]

27. Where does the Krasnov name for Trump come from? nt

[BoRaGard]

28. Russia - his darkside codename from the skinny side of the Evil Empire*

* According to former GOP saint, and current apparent outcast, Ronald Reagan, russia is the evil empire.

[haele]

29. Supposed to be the name his Russian handlers gave him in the 1980's

Kraznov historically being an early era Soviet General who fled to work for the Nazis, "repatrioted" by the Allies and executed in '47.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. dammed if u do , dammed if u dont.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. and this bill dosnt care if u r retired.

[Karasu]

13. There is no such thing in the minds of Republicans. You're here to make money for rich people and die. That's it.

[dalton99a]

12. Kick

[Seinan Sensei]

14. I'm ready to wake up now

This is a very, very bad dream
☹️

[Fil1957]

15. I think there are those in the Trump administration who actually get pleasure doing stuff like this.

[MLWR]

19. All nazis are sadists; it comes with the territory.

[Godot51]

17. Of course...

... hurry up and die poor, inconsequential old people and get out of our hair.

[Wiz Imp]

18. The work requirements do not apply to those 65 & older.

[Karasu]

26. We'll get there. Several people in this regime are already on record saying we should do away with the retirement age,

and a lot more Republicans want to do it without being stupid enough to actually fucking say it out loud.

But these are ALSO the same people who want to go all-in on AI, so...they really need to make up their fucking fascist minds already.

[Torchlight]

30. Precious salt for the wound.

[Warpy]

21. It boggles my mind just what they expect most seniors to do

I have visions of old people hunched over their walkers, doing stoop work in the fields since these fucking assholes eliminated most farm workers.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Trump who's never worked a day in his life...

…gets his rocks off hurting others.

No wonder his own mother feared him.

[B.See]

25. Doesn't matter if the work requirement

doesn't apply to those 65 or older.

Bottom line, it's a despicably heinous act to impose work requirements on people who, by virtue of their age, are more likely to need Medicaid, may have medical issues that preclude or may make employment more difficult, and then shut down an agency whose purpose is to find placement for these individuals,

as if it isn't already difficult for people above a certain age to find a job. There IS no defence for this kind of shit.

[calimary]

31. Worth repeating when it comes to this S.O.B.

He is the king of all schmucks.

Still hard to believe he “won” the White House twice. I’m not sure I can ever believe that one.

Maybe hurting people assuages his own inner pain? Or am I just grasping for ANY way that might help me make sense of him?

[Seinan Sensei]

32. Russell Vought is an open boil

on the arse of Humanity

[Dancingdem]

33. Disgusting