Budget Cuts Series 2021: Trump Cuts Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance

Our Budget Cuts Series is unfortunately back for a fourth year and there's too much to cover from the disgusting fiscal year 2021 budget that Trump's cronies unveiled in mid-February 2020.  This is part two in an series with an unknown amount of parts.

In this post, Trump wants to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and  children's health insurance  - all while keeping tax breaks for the rich.

The White House on Monday proposed a $4.8 trillion election-year budget that would slash major domestic and safety net programs....

The budget would cut Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and also wring savings from Medicare despite Trump’s repeated promises to safeguard Medicare and Social Security.

Budgets reflect priorities and we see right here what Republican and Trump priorities are.  Believe them when they tell you.

Trump’s budget aims to cut spending on safety-net programs such as Medicaid.... It proposes to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare over a decade....

The budget cuts Medicaid spending by about $920 billion over 10 years....  would lead to reductions in benefits and the number of people on the health care program.

It takes aim at domestic spending with.... cutting the budget of the Health and Human Services department by 9 percent.

They are coming for your healthcare. For real they are.

In 2015, he promised not to seek cuts to Medicaid as well, but his budgets have routinely sought big Medicaid changes that would cut roughly $800 billion from the program over 10 years.

“This is a budget that would cause many millions of people to lose health care coverage. That is unambiguous," said Aviva Aron-Dine, a former Obama official and vice president at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

 

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/09/trump-budget-plan-would-fail-eliminate-deficit-over-10-years-briefing-docu...

Date: 
Monday, February 24, 2020