A coalition of Massachusetts politicians, led by Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is calling on the nation’s top public health official to stop an attack on a key building block for anti-poverty efforts.

The White House has proposed eliminating the Community Service Block Grant program in its 2026 budget plan , arguing that it’s padded with “equity-building and green energy initiatives,” Daily Yonder , which covers issues important to rural Americans, reported.

But the program, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, helps pay for “crucial services” to low-income families, Warren and her colleagues argued in a Tuesday letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Those services include home energy assistance, child care and early education efforts,

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