Trump is now going after Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and more
 

President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled its third budget proposal Monday, cementing a vision for the United States that bolsters funding for defense and border walls, while severely cutting social programs for the nation’s poorest.

The $4.7 trillion budget proposal, which encompasses everything from funding for food aid, education, and health care to national defense, seeks to slash $845 billion from Medicare — a program Trump notably promised to leave untouched — $241 billion from Medicaid through major structural reforms, as well as a 9 percent cut across non-defense programs, all while increasing the defense budget to $750 billion, 5 percent more than the 2019 budget.

Additionally, Trump’s administration has asked Congress for $8.6 billion for the president’s border wall, a project the president declared a national emergency over earlier this year amid the nation’s longest government shutdown in history.

If Trump’s budget were to be enacted, some of the biggest policy changes would include:

- $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid over 10 years, implementing work requirements as well as eliminating the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. The budget instead adds $1.2 trillion for a “Market Based Health Care Grant” — block grant to states, instead of paying by need. It’s not clear whether that would be part of Medicaid.

- An $845 billion cut to Medicare over 10 years, about a 10 percent cut, to be achieved through targeting wasteful spending and provider payments and lowering prescription drug costs.

-$25 billion in cuts to Social Security over 10 years, including cuts to disability insurance.

-A $220 billion cut to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps, over 10 years, including mandatory work requirements. The program currently serves around 45 million people.

-A $21 billion cut to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, an already severely underfunded cash-assistance program for the nation’s poorest.

-$207 billion in cuts to the student loan program, eliminating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and cutting subsidized student loans.

-Increases defense spending by $34 billion next year, to a $750 billion budget baseline. That makes up a 5 percent boost to defense and military spending. To keep the defense budget within current caps, the White House uses a gimmick, putting $164 billion of this budget increase in an uncapped overseas contingency (OCO) fund.

$8.6 billion in funding for the southern border wall, separated between increased funding for the Department of Homeland Security and funding for military construction.

The Trump administration is proud of the proposed cuts.

“This budget will have more reductions in spending than any president in history has ever proposed,” a senior administration official told reporters Monday, expressing concern about the national debt. The deficit has swelled under Republican leadership in large part because of the tax cuts enacted last year. Trump’s administration, however, has balked at the notion that the decrease in revenue from cutting corporate taxes is the root cause of the growing debt.

“It’s not that Americans are taxed too little, it’s that Washington spends too much,” Russ Vought, the Office of Management and Budget’s deputy director, penned in a Fox News op-ed Monday.


Trump’s 2020 budget proposal seriously cuts the nation’s safety net

It must be his way of making healthcare & drug prices cheaper like he promised during his campaign :evil-laug

80% of Trump's base is old white guys on social security.. Of course they will say.. "oh he doesn't really mean he's gonna go after my social security.. he mean's the dead beats"..


6 months later.. I didn't think he was gonna take "my" social security.. I thought it was the other guy's...


They didn't listen when we told them Trump & Republican was gonna take their health insurance away and they wont listen now either. They are the dumbest of the dumb..

And by the next election they're dead and can't vote against Trump. Sad

Chump supporters are lemmings who would gladly throw themselves over a cliff

It's already happening. The tax cut was passed using budget reconciliation which means it has to have certain stopgaps in it in case it costs more than anticipated. The entire thing is based on their being a steady 3% GDP growth every year. When that doesn't happen, it starts cutting into medicare and medicaid to make up for the losses.

So, in short, sick and old people get fucked so billionaires can get tax write-offs on their private jets.

This is just disgusting all around....

You gotta love VOX. Oh no!! Don't take away the gibsmedats!!!

You know the best thing ever?

The next Democrat could run on the campaign slogan.. "Make America Great Again" and it would be much more realistic than when Trump used it.. Sad.

Bill Clinton said it before Trump did.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

And now the guy who really wrote the book

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8450141.html

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It's like an alt-left circle jerk in here. Sorry, I don't respond to hate groups. I'm out.

:pimp

If we have ACA why do we need medicaid and medicare? Isn't that why those who pay for insurance are paying out the ass so that those that can't afford it get free health care?? Or are we getting double whammied?

People pay into Medicare their whole life, it isn't free and has nothing to do with the ACA. Are you seriously this stupid?

If true that's a disaster.

But let me reveal to you the reason why your Medical Health cost so much. Consecutive US governments have bent over backwards to the Pharma and Health Care parasites. So you've ended up with the most expensive and a pretty average health care system.

As for making America Great Again. That will never happen while foreign labour is imported and manufacturing, science, technology are exported. And why your country is so deep in debt it can't raise the taxes to pay it's own bills.

You couldn't be more correct. Insurance companies and colleges are for profit and it's really fucked things up.

yeah paul you tell them from your outsourced production country :thumbsup

keep it domestic! (but not paul) :thumbsup

You voted for the guys who gave you this fucked up system.

It's still amazing to me that Leftists have no clue how President Trump operates, even though he wrote multiple books explaining exactly what he is doing.

What does President Trump really want? He wants the wall and more security.

How does he get it? By asking for WAY MORE than what he really wants, and then negotiating down.

So he'll give up a fake concession, to stop cuts to Social Security and Medicare (which he never wanted anyway), in exchange for full funding of the wall and more security.

It's negotiation 101. This is a business-oriented message board, and you dumbasses still don't understand this?

They have blind rage.

... and Reagan as well .

Your point ?