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"President Donald Trump plans to propose $1.7 trillion in cuts to a category of spending that includes major social and entitlement programs for lower-income Americans, as part of an effort to balance the budget within a decade.
The White House will issue a formal budget request Tuesday that includes $274 billion in cuts over 10 years to means-tested anti-poverty programs, including food stamps, according to a Republican congressional aide and a White House document obtained by Bloomberg News.
The administration has prepared talking points for Republicans on Capitol Hill touting that the budget strives to replace dependency with the dignity of work through welfare reform efforts.
The upcoming budget request for fiscal 2018, which include dropping the top individual tax rate to 35 percent, is already attracting criticism from Democrats. Trumps proposal will also call for $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid, the health program for the poor, the Washington Post reported.
This budget continues to reveal President Trumps true colors: His populist campaign rhetoric was just a Trojan horse to execute long-held, hard-right policies that benefit the ultra-wealthy at the expense of the middle class, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Sunday."
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-22/trump-to-propose-deep-cuts-to-anti-poverty-programs-and-medicaid
msongs
(67,441 posts)Ezior
(505 posts)That's tremendous! Where do I sign up to get some of the 466 million USD per day? Oh I see, the 0.1% club. I'll have to pass on that one.
classykaren
(769 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)INADEQUATE as a response to pure EVIL.
Trump, as with Tex Watson, is the Devil, and he has come to do the Devil's work.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)as they throw the cold and hungry people of America under their freaking deluxe, gourmet golf bus.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)I loathe this putrid mass of flesh.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)what a legacy.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)the Pope.
This budget, as Trump speaks of helping Americans.
The tortures I wish upon this evil man and his diabolical minions (Pence, Ryan, McConnell, Mulvaney, Kushner, Tillerson, et al.) know no bounds.
I mean that from the depth of my being. The rack, the wheel, the pyre, are all too slight.
Botany
(70,581 posts)n/t
MFM008
(19,818 posts)So is his budget......
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)If that means a shut down. Why do rich people hate poor people. What is this desire to hurt them more. Sick, evil.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Why does President Trump and the GOP want to drop these protections? The future is AI and robots. Americans will come to rely on these protections from poverty even more. If anything, they will need improving, not dismantling.