AnonymousSource: Office of Rep. Salud Carbajal
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal highlighted another $20,649,415 in federal funds available to bring down heating and cooling costs for California’s working families and encouraged Central Coast residents to utilize the funds if they are in need.
The new funding, administered last week through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), was approved by Carbajal as part of the 2022 funding agreement signed into law in March.
“I know many Central Coast families have been struggling to deal with rising energy prices–and that’s why I’ve fought to increase funding for programs that help cut costs and ensure California homes are ready to withstand the increasingly harsh effects of climate change,” said Rep. Carbajal. “This additional $20 million for California that I helped get signed into law builds on more than $400 million that I’ve secured to help lower energy costs on the Central Coast. No family should have to choose between heating or cooling their home and putting food on the table. I encourage all who are struggling to check their eligibility and reach out to their local LIHEAP team.”
The LIHEAP funds will be used to cut Californians’ energy bills, provide crisis assistance and help weatherize homes to protect against the effects of climate change.
California residents can learn more about LIHEAP, assess their eligibility, and find their local resources here. Californians can also call 2-1-1 to find more information.
More information about LIHEAP can be found here. Más información sobre LIHEAP en español está aquí.
Background:
The funding announced last week by HHS represents the fourth round of LIHEAP assistance administered over the past year. In total, Rep. Carbajal and Congressional Democrats have secured $407,656,109 for California households since May of 2021.
Previous Rounds were delivered through:
- the American Rescue Plan: $203,610,805
- the 2021 Continuing Resolution: $179,228,041
- the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: $4,177,848
Last year, Rep. Carbajal was part of a bipartisan effort to increase LIHEAP funding in the 2022 federal budget to allow the program to keep up with the rising costs of energy.
Bringing costs down for “California’s working families…” More like continuing to increase our inflation rates by more Government handouts and programs… We can’t continue like this and just print more dollars without it affecting our economy- It’s not sustainable. It’s not hard to do the math…
Oh but I suppose giving tens of billions to oil companies in subsidies and leases is “free market capitalism” to you. If you actually do the math, we have socialism for corporations and the wealthy but rugged individualism for the middle class and the poor. Too big to fail. Avoiding taxes is an entire industry to the wealthy, who have armies of tax attorneys and accountants to game the system. The “welfare queen” shtick is a tired canard not based in reality.
The middle class is getting fleeced by the left and the right.
Excellent work Mr. Carbajal
Bless you.
I firmly believe that half the problems in our so-called Government, is that they do nothing of import to move us forward because they are too busy “fighting for us”.
Good God politicians, have you not yet figured out that “fighting” for me or us has accomplished nothing of importance?
What business can you point to that has achieved success with having all of their employees at one another’s throats?
What society has advanced in an atmosphere of citizen to citizen combat?
Collaborate, merge, combine , use whatever adjective you wish but please, for our sake, relearn how to come to point of consensus that benefits all with that decision.
If you cannot or will not because of your tribalism, then at least have the decency to resign and go away because you bring no value.
Hey Chillin welfare queen is a tired shtick? I see it quite often, people driving Escalade’s with 22″ rims using the EBT card at the store.
Salud do something for the working class-not the non working class
SAIL et alia: The “welfare” kings and queens are those who live off of tax dodges and benefits that working people cannot use. People who engage in real estate speculation with write offs showing paper losses (for example) that allow them to live tax free and high on the hog. The discrepancy between the poor and the uber wealthy in the US has increased to record modern levels. Almost all of the “wealth” is created and sustained by bought legislatures. The crumbs that are let out to the really poor such as subsidized food purchases are insignificant by comparison (and in the case of food subsidy are a boon to the corporations that want a market to off load their excess production at a profit).
I think this is a good move by Rep. Carbajal, but it would be nice if he could work on the price of brining energy down….especially in California. I recently was on a road trip in and the cost of gas is nearly $2.00 a gallon less in places like NM, OK, TX, AK, and parts of Arizona. I paid $3.56 for regular at one station.
For those who agree with the way things are being run, maybe this snippet from a CNN article will open your eyes to seek a different path and stop blaming others for this nightmare we are living:
(CNN)The news that the US economy unexpectedly shrank over the first quarter of the year is an absolute body blow to Democrats already reeling amid growing economic concerns ahead of the 2022 midterm election.
The country’s gross domestic product fell at an annualized rate of 1.4% between January and March — a stunning reversal from the 6.9% GDP growth that the US recorded in the final quarter of 2021. (The GDP is seen as a broad guide to the overall health of a nation’s economy.)
And in a decidedly ill omen, the GDP shrinkage was the worst performance of the measure since the economy went into recession amid the shutting down of the country in the spring of 2020.
Okay, you have officially set me off tonight over this whole “I’ll fight for you” BS.
Quit it you morons. I don’t want, need or desire some pompous poli-warrior doing battle in my name without asking me first. I didn’t hire you to fight – this isn’t some MMA show on some sideline cable channel. I hired you to work. I hired you to hopefully contribute to the reasonable management of society itself.
Do the damn job I hired you to do – identify a problem, a real one, not some BS who-cares make-believe “crisis” to get yourself on CNN or Faux News so you can terrify old white people or gin up your donors. Brainstorm real solutions, collaborate with the enemy to reach a unified response, run it by us (your employer) and then act with conviction. As it stands now, we have one tribe obsessed with every fringe element of human weirdness as if we give a damn what letter you are while the other side is stuck in “just say no” land such that they would deny the sky is blue if it meant agreement across party lines. And the rest of us people living in the real world are asking WTF, don’t you people see the actual monsters on the horizons that we see?
Putin’s nukes, water shortages, climate catastrophes, gas prices, Hedge Funds buying all the houses, inflation, homegrown assaults against democracy. The list goes on. I would much prefer our Politicians address these issues as each has a potential to end this social experiment if left unresolved.
The things that matter for our very survival – the things our politicians refuse to address because why?
Too much work, we’d have to think, we’d have to collaborate?
Quit “fighting for me” – and start “working for us”.
If you don’t the fight will come and you will be the target.
And then we all lose.
IMO midterms are coming up. Time to vote out Salud Carbajal.
Duke attacking our dem leaders does not help!!!! Stop!
Yet another example of a progressive liberal pandering to people who gladly exchange their vote for more fee handouts.