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President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.A new report details how president-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and GOP allies in Congress are plotting to make massive cuts to social safety net programs, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program , in order to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy.
Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP equaling the amount necessary to cover that budget shortfall would affect around 70 million Americans with lower incomes, according to the report by theemphasized, but the discussions indicate a willingness by many in the GOP to trade off protections for people with lower incomes in order to ensure that the richest Americans get richer.speaking about Medicaid or SNAP during his presidential campaign, although in March he did allude to the idea that cuts could be coming.
Recent polling on both programs show that they are widely popular, and that Americans by and large do not want to see significant changes to them. In a KFF poll from earlier this year, 86 percent of Medicaid enrollees, as well as 71 percent of people who aren’t enrolled in the program, said itIf you feel rage, despondency, confusion and deep fear today, you are not alone. We’re feeling it too. We are heartsick.
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