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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump wants to overhaul America's safety net with giant cuts to housing, food stamps and health care
Trump wants to overhaul Americas safety net with giant cuts to housing, food stamps and health careBy Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey, Amy Goldstein and Jeff Stein February 12
The budget that President Trump proposed Monday takes a hard whack at the poorest Americans, slashing billions of dollars from food stamps, public health insurance and federal housing vouchers, while trying to tilt the programs in more conservative directions.
The spending plan reaches beyond the White Houses own power over the government social safety net and presumes lawmakers will overhaul long-standing entitlement programs for the poor in ways beyond what Congress so far has been willing to do.
The changes call on lawmakers to eliminate the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and transform the rest of that program into a system of capped payments to states; convert food assistance into a hybrid of commodity deliveries and traditional cash benefits; and expand requirements that low-income people work to qualify for federal assistance.
Specifically, the Trump budget proposal would gut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, by $17.2 billion in 2019 equivalent to 22 percent of the programs total cost last year and implement a boxed food delivery program, a system that White House budget director Mick Mulvaney compared to Blue Apron.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-wants-to-overhaul-americas-safety-net-with-giant-cuts-to-housing-food-stamps-and-health-care/2018/02/12/a7cfd03e-102f-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.8d1aab74400a
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Trump wants to overhaul America's safety net with giant cuts to housing, food stamps and health care (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Feb 2018
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He wants to kill off the poor and any unhealthy middle class folks, after he steals all their $ for
lark
Feb 2018
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lark
(23,138 posts)1. He wants to kill off the poor and any unhealthy middle class folks, after he steals all their $ for
himself.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)2. Who taught those morons the English language???
In what world does cutting huge holes into a net constitute overhauling rather than vandalizing it???
Weed Man
(304 posts)3. Off with the king's head then! And the vice king's head! And the Speaker of the House! And the Major
All republicans should have their heads cut off to end all possible contamination to the gene pool.
eppur_se_muova
(36,280 posts)4. Why do Uglicans say "overhaul" when they mean "underhaul" ?
Yeah, I knew the answer before I asked. I just wish Dems and pundits would start correcting Uglican language misuse.