America Is Being Harmed!

America Is Being Harmed

Be Informed, Give Support, Take Action

April 29, 2025

Our Message

1. The Administration for Community Living (ACL), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is in charge of the Meals on Wheels program. The Older Americans Act Nutrition Program funds this program. The Trump administration is threatening to reduce of even cut the funding for the Meals on Wheels program.

2. Almost 60% of the Meals on Wheels providers across the United States rely on this funding for at least half of their revenue. The Trump administration has fired the entire staff that oversees the Social Services Block Grant program that is the source of the funds for Meals on Wheels.

3. 1 in 4 Americans are over the age of 60. Almost 13 million Americans are threatened or experience hunger. Eliminating the workers who oversee the money that funds the Meals on Wheels program is harming older Americans. There are waiting lists for this program in most parts of the country which shows that Meals on Wheels is already underfunded.

4. The Meals on Wheels program needs not to be cut, but expanded and funding needs to be increased. The Continuing Resolution that Congress recently passed keeps the funding amount at current levels through September of 2025. Congress needs to continue the program and increase funding.

5. The Meals on Wheels program helps older Americans stay healthy and live in their own homes. This is much less expensive than the increased cost of long-term care in an institutional setting.

Give Support

SammySocks Etc. will donate 20% of all sales during the month of May 2025 to Meals on Wheels Central Texas. 20% of your purchase will go toward helping provide a noontime, home delivered meal, 5 days a week, for 52 weeks each year to enable seniors to remain living independently at home. Your purchase will help offset the costs of filling this need.

Take Action

1. Donate directly to Meals on Wheels Central Texas.

2. Volunteer at your local Meals on Wheels organization.

3. Contact (visit, call, email, text, and/or write letters) your local officials in your city, county, state, and federal government. Let them know that they need to step up and support local, county, state, and national Meals on Wheels programs. You can find who your elected officials are at this website: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials.

4. Specifically contact your federal elected officials (congressmen or congresswomen and senators) to let them know that you do not support the cuts to this federal program that supplies food to elderly people all across the United States.