White House requests cuts to children's health insurance funding-CNN
By Tami Luhby and Betsy Klein, CNN/May 8, 2018
(CNN)The White House is seeking to cut funding from the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, as part of its larger request for cuts to the federal budget in a rescissions package sent to Congress this week.
The request from President Donald Trump includes a $7 billion cut to the popular program, part of $15 billion in overall cuts. Some $2 billion would come from a contingency fund that was created to prevent states from running out of money, with the rest coming from funding that Congress has authorized for the program but states haven't spent.
The administration defended the cuts, telling reporters Monday the money would come from untapped leftover funds and wouldn't affect operations at CHIP or in other health care areas.
"This is money that was never going to be spent," said one official.
Trump want to do this and here we are in election season. what a fool, i bet repubs are reeling right now saying 'wtf is wrong with him?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/white-house-chip-funding/index.html
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