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The hysteria over President Trump's budget cuts is interesting considering that one of my main complaints is that it doesn't cut enough spending. Moreover, some big spending programs that are driving our future debt have been pretty much left untouched.
Republicans trying to dismantle former President Barack Obama's health care law have run into the same problem that bedeviled him: Quality health insurance doesn't come cheap, especially if it protects people in poor health, older adults not yet eligible for Medicare, and the poor. Now, the GOP's laser focus on lowering premiums could undermine comprehensive coverage that consumers also value, such as the current guarantees that people with medical problems can get health insurance, or that plans will cover costly conditions such as substance abuse.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison in March. Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require childless adults applying for Medicaid to undergo drug screening.
The health care bill Republicans recently pushed through the House would leave 23 million more Americans without insurance and confront others who have costly medical conditions with coverage that could prove unaffordable, Congress' official budget analysts said Wednesday.
Gov. Scott Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require childless adults applying for Medicaid to undergo drug screening, a move that could serve as a national model. Walker's plan, which needs federal approval, comes as he prepares to run for a third term next year.
The latest analysis of the GOP's health care bill concludes that the plan would leave 14 million more people uninsured next year if it becomes law, a number that rises to 23 million by 2026. The bill, known as the American Health Care Act, passed the House with only one vote to spare earlier this month.
Congressional Republicans are about to learn more about whether their drive to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law has been worth the political pain they've been experiencing. The Congressional Budget Office planned to release its estimate Wednesday of what impact the GOP's House-passed health care overhaul would have on coverage and premiums.
To the Trump team, the president's budget proposal is rooted in unassailable values: respect for the people "who are actually paying the taxes," as White House budget director Mick Mulvaney puts it. In President Trump's $4.1 trillion fiscal 2018 budget plan, released Tuesday, that approach translates into deep cuts in social safety-net programs that Mr. Mulvaney suggests discourage work and hinder economic growth.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent Congress a $4.1 trillion spending plan that relies on faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs for the poor in a bid to balance the government's books over the next decade. The proposed 2018 budget immediately came under attack by Democrats and even some of GOP allies declared it dead on arrival.
Most presidents' budgets are "dead on arrival" in Congress. It happened to Barack Obama and George W. Bush , and there are those who hope it happens to President Donald Trump .
President Donald Trump's proposed $4.1 trillion budget slashes safety net programs for the poor, targeting food stamps and Medicaid, while relying on rosy projections about the nation's economic growth to balance the budget within 10 years. The cuts are part of a budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year that amount to a dramatic restructuring of the government, with protection for retirement programs for the elderly, billions of dollars more for the military and the rest of the government bearing the bulk of the reductions.
President Donald Trump is proposing to balance the federal budget within a decade by making sharp cuts to social safety-net programs like food stamps and Medicaid and offering optimistic estimates of economic growth and tax revenues to fulfill the promise of a government back in the black. Tuesday's budget blueprint faces a skeptical reception from Congress, where Republicans and Democrats oppose Trump proposals to cut domestic agencies and foreign aid by 10 percent and are recoiling from a $1.7 trillion cut over the coming decade from mandatory government benefit programs.
If I were the president and I were to submit a budget to Congress, I would make sure that all the parts of that budget fit a consistent theme. The federal government is a very large operation with many component parts, and sometimes coming up with a coherent theme is impossible.
President Donald Trump's budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's first major budget proposal on Tuesday is said to include massive cuts to Medicaid and call for changes to anti-poverty programs that would give states new power to limit a range of benefits.Trump is seen here Friday with Vice President Mike Pence.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, right, joined by GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks, inspects the production run of President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget, Friday, May 19, 2017, at the U.S. Government Publishing Office's plant in Washington. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, right, joined by GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks, inspects the production run of President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget, Friday, May 19, 2017, at the U.S. Government Publishing Office's plant in Washington.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb's new drug czar on Thursday detailed a plan to combat the opioid crisis in the state, which has seen a dramatic increase in overdose hospitalizations and deaths over the past five years.