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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Tue May 23, 2017, 09:05 PM May 2017

Republicans opposition to budget: 'Dead on arrival'

... Trump’s 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 president’s 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
Good, because it's an exercise in sheer insanity Warpy May 2017 #1
Yep, just like Trump Care! imanamerican63 May 2017 #2
The only reason some GOP lawmakers are against this justiceischeap May 2017 #3
Trump voters also depend heavily on those social programs in the red states. dubyadiprecession May 2017 #4
A proposal too mean even for them. n/t moonscape May 2017 #5
Truth is, if they could find a way to just fuck over poor progressives, they would be all for it Freethinker65 May 2017 #6
It's as if Putin wrote the budget Generic Brad May 2017 #7

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
1. Good, because it's an exercise in sheer insanity
Tue May 23, 2017, 09:09 PM
May 2017

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.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
3. The only reason some GOP lawmakers are against this
Tue May 23, 2017, 09:16 PM
May 2017

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.
Tue May 23, 2017, 09:17 PM
May 2017

Trump would effectively be cutting his own throat while making those cuts!

Generic Brad

(14,270 posts)
7. It's as if Putin wrote the budget
Tue May 23, 2017, 11:20 PM
May 2017

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.

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