Bay Area House Democrats claim victory as White House reverses $1.9 billion cut in health funding

When the Trump administration announced $1.9 billion in mental health and social service cuts on late Tuesday night — sending out termination notices to some 2,000 organizations — more than 100 Congressional Democrats demanded answers.

“We are extremely concerned by reports of the sudden termination of what appears to be the vast majority of the discretionary grants at Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,” Democrats wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.