“Trump's Budget Will Slash $1.7 Trillion In Entitlements, Cut Food Stamps By 25%”
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“Trump’s Budget Will Slash $1.7 Trillion In Entitlements,
Cut Food Stamps By 25%”
by Tyler Durden
“More details from President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal are trickling out via a flurry of overnight reports from The Washington Post, Associated Press and Bloomberg News. Here are some of the highlights from the latest batch of trial balloons:
• The budget will slash $1.7 trillion in spending on entitlement programs, according to Bloomberg.
• Trump’s budget will include a massive nearly $200 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, the modern version of food stamps, over the next 10 years – what amounts to a 25% reduction,
according to The Washington Post.
• The food stamp cuts are part of a broader $274 billion welfare-reform effort, according to a report by
The Associated Press.
• The budget calls for about $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid for fiscal year 2018, WaPo reported.
• The budget also calls for $2.6 billion in border security spending, $1.6 billion of which will be earmarked
for Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.’s southern border.
• The budget is also expected to propose major domestic discretionary spending cuts – an earlier version
of the budget called for $54 billion in such cuts next year alone.
• The budget will slash $1.7 trillion in spending on entitlement programs, according to Bloomberg.
• Trump’s budget will include a massive nearly $200 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, the modern version of food stamps, over the next 10 years – what amounts to a 25% reduction,
according to The Washington Post.
• The food stamp cuts are part of a broader $274 billion welfare-reform effort, according to a report by
The Associated Press.
• The budget calls for about $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid for fiscal year 2018, WaPo reported.
• The budget also calls for $2.6 billion in border security spending, $1.6 billion of which will be earmarked
for Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.’s southern border.
• The budget is also expected to propose major domestic discretionary spending cuts – an earlier version
of the budget called for $54 billion in such cuts next year alone.
Predictably, Democrats are already up in arms over the proposal, even though a formal draft isn’t expected until Tuesday. In a statement cited by Bloomberg, New York Senator Senator Chuck Schumer clumsily compared Trump’s campaign rhetoric to a “Trojan Horse.” “This budget continues to reveal President Trump’s 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,” Bloomberg noted.
Well, at least Trump didn’t promise that if Americans liked their healthcare plan, they can keep it.
To be sure, Republicans have also expressed some discomfort with the cuts, particularly Trump’s plan to whack $54 billion in discretionary spending. Mitch McConnell even told Bloomberg that Congressional Republicans would ultimately end up writing their own budget, the same way Senate Republicans are rewriting Obamacare repeal.
Trump has promised to balance the federal government’s budget in 10 years, though, as Democrats have noted, the projection is dependent on economic growth accelerating to 3% following the passage of massive tax cuts, and no recession over the next decade, a rather bold assumption. Meanwhile, growth collapsed to an annualized rate of just 0.7% in the fist quarter, the slowest rate in three years, while loan demand has plunged to the lowest level in 6 years. Meanwhile, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget claims that rather than reining it in our national debt, Trump’s tax cuts would make the debt much worse.”
- http://www.zerohedge.com/
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