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The blame game about cuts to social service programs got a little weirder with a lawmaker’s error in an official press release.

House Majority Leader Mike Sanders, R-Kingfisher, singled out the 211 helpline system as a program the Oklahoma Department of Services could cut instead of others that more directly affect vulnerable children and adults.

But DHS eliminated funding to 211 last year.

Sanders threw the first punch at DHS last week after the agency announced that it was cutting $30 million by lowering payments to foster and adoptive families, in-home services for developmentally disabled people and nutrition services for seniors.

A July 14 press release from the House Communications and Public Affairs Office on House of Representatives letterhead lists Sanders as the contact. In it, he is quoted as saying: