To cut such a program would be a huge blow to substantive equality, because substantive equality is the difference between formal equality, that is, treating everybody the same, which is the standard distinction, and.... I grew up with that, thinking that's what equality means, but substantive equality is a consideration of the different circumstances and situations that people are in, and accommodating those differences or rising to the occasion of those differences.
So the elimination of this program would be the elimination of substantive equality to the extent there is the possibility of government support and commitment to funding the realization of equality as an ideal—and not even as an ideal, but in practice when it comes to concrete issues.