The Yahoo News article presented in the original Bluesky post does not explicitly detail the impacts the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding cuts would have on immigrants and their ability to obtain green cards, nor does it include public opinion and support for the policy. The article tracks back to an article on the website of the reputable news institution Politico. This article was written by Katherine Hapgood, who worked as an investigative policy reporter for the Center for Public Integrity before reporting on congressional proceedings concerning economics for Politico. Similar to the previous article, the Politico article primarily reports upon the impact of HUD cuts toward permanent housing and its impacts on families, the disabled, and rural areas. It does not explicitly report on the impacts of HUD funding cuts on immigrant communities, nor does it include comment from the general public.
Implications of the restrictions on immigrants obtaining citizenship, a policy pushed by the Trump administration during his first term in office, is coined as “public charge” by studies from both government departments and independent immigrant advocacy organizations. One of these studies is cited by the National Institute of Health (NIH), the study originally tracing back to the American Sociological Association (ASA) and is written by Kendal Lowrey and Jennifer Van Hook. The original study is published in Sage Journals. This study specifically examines the Trump administration’s first attempt at public charge policy through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and addresses common myths about immigrants and the American welfare system. It also addresses the ways in which public charge policies are unfair towards the Latino community. According to the study,
“One of the major conclusions of both reports was that nearly one-half of applicants from Mexico and Central America—more than four times that of European-origin applicants—would be at high risk of being deemed inadmissible for green cards solely due to their lower levels of education, low English proficiency, and low income.
This alone might not be construed as unfair if this group were also the most likely to use public benefits. But they are not. We’ve found in our research that Mexicans and Central Americans are among the least likely to use the most expensive forms of public assistance — cash public assistance and Medicaid — after 5 to 10 years in the country” (Lowrey et al, 2021).
Presently, there are no studies or major news institutions that have collected data on the reactions of the general public towards more recently implemented “public charge” policies. However, many organizations concerned with the protection of immigrants in America (such as National Immigration Law Center and Medicare Rights Center) are adamantly against these recent policies.
In summary, the linked Yahoo News article and the Politico article it heavily references does not contain any information on the impacts of HUD funding cuts and immigration policy. However, in terms of impacts of wider "public charge” (which includes the public benefits detailed in the original Bluesky post), there are studies showing the negative impact of public charge policies on immigrants and the prejudice these policies perpetuate. There are currently no statistics measuring the approval or disapproval of the general public towards recent “public charge” policies, though many organizations advocating for the rights of immigrants are opposed to this new policy.
Cited Articles and Studies:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/trump-admin-looks-at-deep-cuts-to-homeless-housing-program-00585770?ceid=6913921&emci=536d329a-94be-f011-8194-00224823ff9b&emdi=954a0c0d-96be-f011-8194-00224823ff9b
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8478291/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15365042211012080
https://www.nilc.org/articles/tell-the-government-you-dont-want-to-get-rid-of-the-current-public-charge-rule/
https://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2025/11/20/public-charge-proposed-rule-threatens-chaos-for-immigrants
