Budget Cuts Series: Trump Budget Would Destroy Medicaid

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget calls for major reductions in spending on Medicaid.

Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid.... when it comes to Trump’s proposed changes to Medicaid and Social Security, the intent is unambiguous: These are cuts to benefits.

The Trump 2020 budget, which is supported by millions of Republicans, specifically seeks to rip away healthcare from millions of the neediest in our country.

The 2020 budget’s Medicaid reforms include adding work requirements and repealing Medicaid expansion and one of the most successful policies within the Affordable Care Act.

Medicaid expansion reduced the uninsured rate by more than 6 percent in states that enacted the policy; it continues to show better health outcomes and is popular in conservative states.

It's disgusting but shouldn't surprise anyone with a brain considering Mick Mulvaney has been leading the budget process. He's a far-right lunatic.

Trump’s budgets.... reflect.... Trump’s appointed budget chief Mick Mulvaney; the former Congress member who was part of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus has long rallied for cutting Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid.

Many of our Senators who lead on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security have spoken up very strongly against this. Several are noted below:

One party wants to expand Medicare and Medicaid and the other wants to cut them. That’s the end of my tweet.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) March 11, 2019

Trump’s budget cuts $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, $845 billion from Medicare and $25 billion from Social Security.

Make no mistake about it: Trump’s budget is a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations in America.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 11, 2019