by Dan Savage
So the President's Volunteer Service Award is a thing—it's a thing that's been around since 2003, it's a thing that subtly reinforces the conservative nostrum that private charity can replace government programs*, and it's a thing I'd never heard of before this morning. But I'm guessing the Trump administration has revised the text on the President's Volunteer Service Award's website because I can't imagine anyone in the Obama administration would've signed off on this copy:
So the President's Volunteer Service Award is a thing—it's a thing that's been around since 2003, it's a thing that subtly reinforces the conservative nostrum that private charity can replace government programs*, and it's a thing I'd never heard of before this morning. But I'm guessing the Trump administration has revised the text on the President's Volunteer Service Award's website because I can't imagine anyone in the Obama administration would've signed off on this copy: