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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new Trump budget is a savage horror show. It's Ryan's dream come true.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/11/new-trump-budget-is-horror-show/The new Trump budget is a horror show
By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent
March 11 at 3:05 PM
You may remember that when he ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump said a lot of unusual things, among which were regular pledges that unlike his Republican primary opponents and others in his party, hed protect the safety net. In the speech announcing his candidacy, he said, Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it.
Trump liked to emphasize how this position distinguished him. Im not going to cut Social Security, like every other Republican, and Im not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid, he said in an interview not long before that announcement. His campaign liked this promise so much that it later published it on its website. In fact, as early as 2011, when Trump was turning himself into a Republican political celebrity with Roger Ailess help with a regular gig on Fox & Friends, he attacked then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for the congressmans plan to cut entitlements, calling it an electoral death wish.
Yet the budget that the Trump administration just released contains enormous cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, not to mention domestic programs. In a word, it is positively savage. Some of the highlights:
The Trump budget would cut about $845 billion from Medicare over 10 years
It cuts $241 billion from Medicaid
It would push Medicaid toward block grants which cap the amount each state would receive, which when the money runs out would result in pared-back benefits, recipients being tossed off the program or both
It would eliminate the Affordable Care Acts expansion of Medicaid, which would mean millions would lose their health coverage
It would cut $25 billion from Social Security
It would impose work requirements on recipients of food stamps, Medicaid and housing assistance, forcing them to navigate a bureaucratic maze or lose their benefits
It would cut $220 billion from food stamps
It would cut $1.1 trillion from domestic discretionary programs, which do not include Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security
It would cut the Department of Housing and Urban Development by 16 percent and the Education Department by 12 percent
It would cut the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent
In short, its Ryans dream come true.
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The new Trump budget is a savage horror show. It's Ryan's dream come true. (Original Post)
dalton99a
Mar 2019
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,887 posts)1. And, of course, it will go nowhere because Dems control the House,
and therefore all spending legislation. But it shows us where these assholes are coming from.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)2. It's how you show hatred and contempt
using numbers instead of words.
ChiTownDenny
(747 posts)3. +1
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)4. They have to pay for that tax cut they got.
JHB
(37,163 posts)5. It's not a Trump budget, it's the Republican one
He's their leader, and they always knuckle under. This is their budget.