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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans opposition to budget: 'Dead on arrival'
... Trumps proposal to reduce spending by $3.6tn, mostly by slashing antipoverty programs that provide social safety nets for the poor, ran into bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill, where a number of Republican lawmakers rejected the cuts as draconian and nonstarters.The presidents plan recommends $616bn in cuts to Medicaid, the government insurance programme for the poorest and many disabled Americans, while increasing border security spending by $2.6bn including $1.6bn to begin construction on a wall along the US-Mexico border.
While fiscal conservatives welcomed the proposal, which aims to balance the budget by 2027, Republicans raised concerns that the plan would slice too deeply into programs that provide poor Americans access to healthcare, food stamps and student loans, setting the stage for a showdown over budget priorities.
The cuts are draconian, Kentucky representative Harold Rogers, a powerful member of the House Appropriations Committee, said of the proposed cuts to Medicaid ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/23/republicans-opposition-trump-budget-medicaid-spending
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Republicans opposition to budget: 'Dead on arrival' (Original Post)
struggle4progress
May 2017
OP
Trump voters also depend heavily on those social programs in the red states.
dubyadiprecession
May 2017
#4
Truth is, if they could find a way to just fuck over poor progressives, they would be all for it
Freethinker65
May 2017
#6
Warpy
(110,913 posts)1. Good, because it's an exercise in sheer insanity
written by Mulvaney and based entirely on what Dolt45 had promised in his campaign speeches. It has no basis in reality.
If Congress passed it, there would be revolution and they know it.
imanamerican63
(13,669 posts)2. Yep, just like Trump Care!
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)3. The only reason some GOP lawmakers are against this
is because they know it effects too many of their constituents (voters).
dubyadiprecession
(5,620 posts)4. Trump voters also depend heavily on those social programs in the red states.
Trump would effectively be cutting his own throat while making those cuts!
moonscape
(4,664 posts)5. A proposal too mean even for them. n/t
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)6. Truth is, if they could find a way to just fuck over poor progressives, they would be all for it
Generic Brad
(14,270 posts)7. It's as if Putin wrote the budget
If passed as is, it turns us into a 3rd world nation. If components are enacted, it weakens our citizenry.
Trump, McConnell & Ryan are out to destroy us. They are not even pretending to disguise their hatred for this country any longer.