Trump advisers contemplating cuts to Medicaid and other welfare programs

[HereForTheParty]

Source: Guardian

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Donald Trump
Trump advisers contemplating cuts to Medicaid and other welfare programs
Further plans include blows to food stamps that could threaten millions of Americans to fund tax cut extensions


Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans are discussing possible cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and other government welfare programmes to cover the costs of extending the president-elect’s multitrillion-dollar 2017 tax cut.

The cuts could mean new work requirements and spending caps, according to the Washington Post, citing sources involved in the talks, including aides in Trump’s transition team.

Extending the tax cuts – most of which are due to expire next year – could add $4tn to the national debt, which already stands at $36tn.

But Republicans fear triggering a political backlash by slashing programmes that serve an estimated 70 million Americans to pay for a tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-medicaid-food-stamps-welfare

[jimfields33]

1. Work requirements? He doesn't understand disability at all.

Nobody is able to work if they are on disability which is the point of the program. Dummies! If anything, they should say, you get this money to help you so you never work again. They never think.

[regnaD kciN]

4. Oh, he understands it quite well...

...or at least his advisors do.

"We've instituted a new work requirement in order to receive disability. Oh, your disability means you can't work? Too bad, so sad. Sucks to be you."

[cstanleytech]

10. Plus if they try they're punished as their benefits can be reduced so they're still trapped in poverty.

[Prairie Gates]

2. "Republicans fear triggering a political backlash ..."

Tell me another one.

[Skittles]

12. I know, right?

THEY DO NOT FUCKING CARE

[dflprincess]

3. Because, as always with this crowd, the cruelty is the point. nt

[Hope22]

5. Every cut to Medicaid damages the healthcare system for all Americans!

This can’t be said enough!

[larwdem]

6. Maybe more people

will start to vote after four years of this

[Joinfortmill]

7. Of course they are, greedy arrogant, vile f*cks

[Faux pas]

8. All they care about

is stealing every dime that the US has.

[Hamlette]

9. The thing about food stamps that terrifies me . . .using them to locate "illegal aliens"

for the most part, you can only receive food stamps if you are here legally. there are many families on food stamps (snap) where there is an undocumented individual in the household. It happens a lot with "anchor babies". Dad and mom sign up the family but only request food stamps for the children who are here legally but do not request assistance for themselves. Since dad and mom are not receiving assistance, they do not need to prove they are documented. Everyone knows the cases with children only are almost certainly families with an undocumented individual living in the house, usually as the head of household.

For years we fought with the federal government/Congress to keep these cases secret. In my state some red neck employees sent a list of all of those cases to the news media. Luckily the media did not publish the names or send them to the feds. The employee were fired.

With a Trumper as head of Agriculture, the feds are going to require the states turn over the names of those families where one or more family members are "not on the case"

That is how they will identify "illegals" and deport them. And the children? Since they have no tie to the country their parents are from, they might not be able to go with their parents when deported. they will go into foster care.

The other thing is the chilling effect. If Trump successfully gets the names, families with and undocumented member in the family will stop applying for food stamps. Kids go hungry. So sad and short sighted.

[Jimvanhise]

11. A BACKLASH??!!

Perhaps someone should clue them in to the fact that if the administration makes cuts in medicare or social security that no Republican will ever be elected again in the United States.

[ReRe]

13. This is how it is

If they cut food stamps, people will actually starve to death because as helpless as they are, they would rather die than beg.
If they cut food stamps, soon we will be seeing pictures of emaciated children right here in the US. White children among them.
If they cut food stamps, the crime rate will soar because desperate hungry people will have no alternative in order to exist.
If they cut food stamps, their health will plummet.
And if they have no healthcare (Medicaid or Medicare), they will die.

If this all does come to pass, we'll see tent clinics and tent kitchens pop up all over this country.

All this and we haven't even heard what they're going to do to HUD. That's one they will probably eliminate altogether too, which will put them on the street or what? in garages?