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WASHINGTON, Feb 11 — President Donald Trump’s US$4.8 trillion (RM19.9 trillion) budget plan for the coming fiscal year drew a prompt rejection yesterday from congressional Democrats, who said it betrayed his promise to protect popular health and safety-net programmes. The White House presented...

US President Donald Trump makes remarks during the White House Business Session with the nation’s governors in the State Dining Room of the White House February 10, 2020. — Reuters pic

The budget is largely a political document that serves as a starting point for negotiations with Congress. With an eye toward reducing debt and deficits, Trump once again proposed steep cuts to housing, environmental, transportation and other programmes that have been rejected by lawmakers in past years.

“Americans’ quality, affordable health care will never be safe with President Trump,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It also would enact new work requirements for people who get food stamps or use the Medicaid health plan for the poor. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, a Republican, said earlier this year that he intends to stick to the spending levels in the congressional budget deal, which would in effect ignore Trump’s proposed domestic spending cuts.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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