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Trump aims for big cuts in healthcare, anti-poverty programs
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SME Times News Bureau | 23 May, 2017
US President Donald Trump will propose big cuts in the Medicaid public
healthcare program as well as in other anti-poverty programs that
provide a safety-net for America's poorest, media reports said.
According
to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the White House on
Tuesday is expected to present a budget plan that will include cutbacks
to Medicaid of some $800 billion over a 10-year period, something that
could deprive a minimum of 10 million low-income citizens of healthcare
coverage.
At the same time, the White House is expected to leave
it largely up to the states to define who may and may not receive
Medicaid coverage, such as requirements that beneficiaries must work a
minimum number of hours or actively seek employment, Efe news reported.
The
White House proposals could also include SNAP, a food program for
low-income families that benefited some 44 million people in 2016.
In
general, Trump will seek to reduce social benefits for the poorest
citizens on grounds that those entitlements ballooned during the
2008-2009 recession and in today's improving economy ought to shrink
accordingly.
Nonetheless, some Senate Republicans, especially
those in more moderate swing states, oppose such drastic cuts in
healthcare and welfare benefits for such a significant part of the
population.
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