Trump’s Budget Chief Argues That Starving Old People By Cutting ‘Meals On Wheels’ Is ‘Compassionate’

On Thursday, White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney tried to defend the Trump administration’s plans to gut social welfare programs such as Meals on Wheels as well as after-school educational services, arguing that those programs don’t show results. When a reporter asked Mulvaney about the Meals on Wheels program, he replied: “Meals on Wheels sounds…