Money is no object for President Joe Biden and the Democrats – as long as the beneficiaries align with their progressive values.

Crime victims, apparently, do not.

As State House News reported, federal funding to support survivors of violent crimes has shriveled in recent years.

Nothing adds insult to injury as tacitly telling survivors of violent crimes that their problems aren’t important enough to warrant robust, continued funding. Students with outstanding college debt and migrants can’t receive largess fast enough, but crime victims? Thoughts and prayers.

Federal funding through the Crime Victims Fund to support victim service programming nationwide has fallen dramatically over the past six years  —  a trend that continued when Biden signed a budget in March that reduced this funding another 28.7%.

This is the part of the budget he cuts?

Massachusetts will receive just over $16 million in fiscal year 2024 for these services, compared to almost $28 million in fiscal 2023. In fiscal 2018, Massachusetts received $69 million for victim services from the federal government.

With the most recent cut, nonprofits helping those impacted by sexual or domestic violence are bracing for 15 to 22% reductions in their funding, according to Hema Sarang-Sieminski, deputy director of the nonprofit coalition Jane Doe Inc.

The cuts could mean letting go of staff, who do everything from counseling to education around sexual assault prevention to legal services, Sarang-Sieminski said.

Where is our state’s Congressional delegation? Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Ed Markey should be raising hell on Capitol Hill. If there was ever a vulnerable population that needs help, it’s victims of violence.

It’s not as if Biden cut the funding because it isn’t needed. Despite the funding decline from D.C., the number of people needing support has grown.  From fiscal 2018 through fiscal 2023, the total number of people served by the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance increased by about 56%.  The office said the need for both in-person and remote services has increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the federal cupboard increasingly bare, MOVA and providers have turned to the state for help. The same state that spends roughly $45 million a month to house and care for migrants.

They asked for $60 million over three years starting in fiscal 2023, or $20 million per year. The third year of that request is fiscal 2025, which begins on June 30.

Gov. Maura Healey included the $20 million request for fiscal 2025 in a fiscal 2024 supplemental budget (H 4496) she filed on March 21. The bill is sitting in the House Ways and Means Committee, and if it doesn’t advance soon there may be cuts.

That would be unconscionable. Lawmakers who claim they work for vulnerable populations should prove it by passing the $20 million request. And political leaders who let this slide without raising the alarm must pull out the stops to beef up funding.

Goodness knows, there are other Biden “must-haves” that could be cut.

Editorial cartoon by Bob Gorrell (Creators Syndicate)