Before there were 280 characters in a tweet, before FBI Director James Comey was fired, and before Robert Mueller was appointed the special counsel, Meals on Wheels seemed like the most egregious outrage.

More specifically, there was widespread indignation at Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney’s call to cut Community Development Block Grants that fund the senior assistance program. “The CDBGs have been identified as programs since I believe the first, actually the second Bush administration,” Mulvaney told reporters, “as ones that were just not showing any results.”