Donald Trump Plans to Cut Money That Helps Domestic Violence Survivors

It's part of a $10.5 trillion budget cut.                                                                   Between 2011 and 2013, federal money awarded through theViolence Against Women Act helped police make 96,911 arrests for domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and dating violence. It paid for prosecutors to argue 157,086 cases for these four crimes, of which 57% resulted in conviction. The money saw 7,973 criminal cases through the courts, of which 71% resulted in conviction. In Mobile, Alabama, the money expanded the court's database to include 20 counties, meaning those counties tracked domestic violence cases for the first time ever in their municipal court system. The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California used the money to hire law enforcement officers specifically for domestic violence calls. The examples of how federal funds under the Violence Against Women Act were used are extensive, and the successes resulting from the money are even more extensive.
The Hill reports Trump staffers have outlined their plans to reduce federal spending, and it's coming at the cost of women's safety. Among a very long list of cuts, including eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, reducing funding for the the Paris Climate Change Agreement and much more designed to trim $10.5 trillion of the budget over a decade, sits the 25 grants funded by the Violence Against Women Act. Each of these grants goes toward reducing domestic, sexual, stalking and dating violence across the country. The money funds public programs, supplements existing initiatives, supplements programs to reduce campus sexual assault, provides culturally specific sexual assault programs and helps states hi  

But say goodbye to all that.

Donald Trump is hours away from being sworn into office, and when he is, he plans to get rid of these funds that have helped so many domestic and sexual violence survivors. 

The Hill reports Trump staffers have outlined their plans to reduce federal spending, and it's coming at the cost of women's safety. Among a very long list of cuts, including eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, reducing funding for the the Paris Climate Change Agreement and much more designed to trim $10.5 trillion of the budget over a decade, sits the 25 grants funded by the Violence Against Women Act. Each of these grants goes toward reducing domestic, sexual, stalking and dating violence across the country. The money funds public programs, supplements existing initiatives, supplements programs to reduce campus sexual assault, provides culturally specific sexual assault programs and helps states hireprosecutors, law enforcement and specialist designed to protect women and people of all genders from intimate violence.