The following article by Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey, Amy Goldstein and Jeff Stein was posted on the Washington Postwebsite February 12, 2018:
The White House’s spending priorities for 2018 renege on President Trump’s promises to lower the deficit and keep Medicare and Medicaid spending without cuts. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
The budget that President Trump proposed Monday takes a hard whack at the poorest Americans, slashing billions of dollars from food stamps, public health insurance and federal housing vouchers, while trying to tilt the programs in more conservative directions.
The spending plan reaches beyond the White House’s own power over the government social safety net and presumes lawmakers will overhaul long-standing entitlement programs for the poor in ways beyond what Congress so far has been willing to do. Continue reading “Trump wants to overhaul America’s safety net with giant cuts to housing, food stamps and health care”