Some GOP Lawmakers Really Don’t Like Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts

Without it, many more of them would be working.

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney slammed what he says is not mere fear-mongering but outright lies by Democrats about President Trump’s federal budget proposal.

According to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures, bedrock Republican states that Trump won have long food-stamp rolls: 3.8 million people in Texas, 682,077 in Vice President Mike Pence’s home state of in, 815,000 in Alabama and 1.6 million in Georgia, for example.

“We’ve lost 40 percent of our wheat crop and you’re telling me there’s going to be large cuts to crop insurance?” asked Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan. In our budget, we do address mandatory spending, what some people call entitlement spending, but we do not address the two that the president simply didn’t want to touch, which was Social Security retirement and Medicare.

Add the AHCA’s $880 billion cut to the budget’s $610 billion in savings, and you’ve got the $1.4 trillion number that’s being thrown around. “Grow the economy, balance the budget”. He believes the converse is true as well.

The discrepancy has been assailed by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but Mulvaney said Wednesday it was intentional.

Before @POTUS departed for foreign trip, we had a productive budget meeting with Budget Director Mick Mulvaney at the @WhiteHouse. And many of them already do.

But the proposed reductions could trigger a backlash for Republicans, complicating efforts to keep control of the U.S. Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. Food stamp cuts would drive millions from the program.

“So is it your testimony that these changes in the rate of reimbursement rates for Medicaid will have no effect on elderly, children, disabled people who are now beneficiaries?” “It’s not fair to the people that have been paying in for years”, Trump said at a leadership summit in New Hampshire.

Lowey said she anxious that Kelly didn’t fully understand how important that money is to local jurisdictions, including New York City.

Presidential budgets are, by their nature, wish lists. The budget would zero out federal teacher training grants and funding for before- and after-school programs. And you have a 13 percent cut in the Department of Education. They reduce child poverty. However, at least OMB boss Mulvaney has attempted to shape this spending plan from a different perspective – that of the taxpayer. “I don’t think people are willing to pay for as much government as they are”.

Joel Berg thinks raising the minimum wage would also help, as would making housing more affordable for low-income families.

The budget proposal, however, contains an assumption that receipts from the estate and gift taxes will increase to $43 billion in 2027 from $21 billion now.

“If states get fewer dollars from the federal government, there are only so many options, because states have to balance the budget every year”, said Elizabeth Carpenter, a health policy expert with the consulting firm Avalare Health.

Trumponomics is anything that can get the US economy soaring to 3 percent growth, the administration’s top economic advisers told Congress this week, saying the only way the federal government can balance its books is to get the economy humming that fast.

“We need to take a look at our nutrition assistance programs to ensure that they are helping the most vulnerable in our society”, Conaway and Roberts said in a joint statement on the budget.