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President Trump’s 2020 budget proposal shortchanges seniors by slashing $845 billion from Medicare, cutting $25 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance, and gutting Medicaid by 1.5 trillion.
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#budget #trump #donald trump #health care #republicans #seniors #retirement #retirees #retirement crisis #elderly #older americans #healthcare #p2 #entitlements #entitlement reformPresident Donald Trump’s budget chief said repeatedly this week that when people think of Social Security, retirement insurance is the only thing that comes to mind ― not disability insurance.
A “welfare program for the long-term disabled,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on Tuesday, “is not what most people would consider to be Social Security.”
Social Security is best known as retirement insurance, but plenty of people are aware that it’s also disability insurance. Forty-three percent of survey respondents said they knew someone who received disability or survivors’ benefits from Social Security, according to a 2010 poll by AARP. (Asked if they knew someone simply “on Social Security,” more than two-thirds said they did.)
via Huffington Post.
On Monday, President Donald Trump unveiled the second budget proposal of his presidency, encompassing proposals affecting defense and non-defense funding for government agencies, tax changes, and funding for social insurance and assistance programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps.
The budget broadly resembles the budget Trump released last year, and both closely follow budget plans put forward by House Speaker Paul Ryan when he was the House Budget Committee chair. Ryan’s previous budget proposals featured trillions in cuts to programs for the poor. While Trump largely leaves the non-disability portions of Social Security unscathed, and boosts funding for border security, veterans, and defense, he cuts just about everything else — including Medicare, which was largely spared in the fiscal year 2018 budget.
via VOX.
President Trump released an FY 2019 budget today proposing deep spending reductions for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and myriad other federal programs that help older Americans, the poor, and people with disabilities.
When he began his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.”
This is a promise, however, President Trump would like to break. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal would cut all three programs, which help the most vulnerable in American society, by billions of dollars.
via Think Progress.
President Trump’s FY 2018 budget drastically cuts programs that benefit America’s oldest – and most vulnerable – citizens. he President’s spending plan calls for deep cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, breaking his promise not to touch Social Security. It guts Medicaid, violating another Trump campaign pledge. Programs that feed needy seniors, keep them warm in their homes and pay for long-term care are eliminated or slashed.
President Donald Trump on Monday released his 2018 budget, a 160-page proposal that calls for slashing billions from popular social safety net programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, as well as increasing military spending and funds for his proposed border wall.
The budget is merely a blueprint for what Trump wants to see, and it’s unlikely to be enacted, given that Congress passed its own two-year budget on Friday.
Still, it lays out Trump’s priorities for how taxpayer funds should be spent. And it shows that Trump is abandoning a key campaign promise, in which he said he would never cut Medicare nor Medicaid— or government-run health insurance programs for seniors and the poorest Americans.
In fact, over the next 10 years, Trump is seeking a $266 billion cut to Medicare, and a $214 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as the food stamp program.
via Mic Dot Com.
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Many of these savings come from cuts to Medicare providers and suppliers, which in turn could affect the care that is available to Medicare beneficiaries. Savings proposals in the President’s budget include:
President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled its third budget proposal Monday, cementing a vision for the United States that bolsters funding for defense and border walls, while severely cutting social programs for the nation’s poorest.
The $4.7 trillion budget proposal, which encompasses everything from funding for food aid, education, and health care to national defense, seeks to slash $845 billion from Medicare — a program Trump notably promised to leave untouched — $241 billion from Medicaid through major structural reforms, as well as a 9 percent cut across non-defense programs, all while increasing the defense budget to $750 billion, 5 percent more than the 2019 budget.
Additionally, Trump’s administration has asked Congress for $8.6 billion for the president’s border wall, a project the president declared a national emergency over earlier this year amid the nation’s longest government shutdown in history.
via Vox.
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National Committee Legislative Director Dan Adcock tells Vermont radio audience that the President’s spending plan “leaves seniors out in the cold, literally.”
Donald Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would not cut Social Security or Medicare, and in his first budget as president, he is sticking to that promise. But congressional Republicans don’t believe Trump will stand by his pledge forever ― in fact, they’re counting on him to break it.
via Huffington Post.
Trump’s budget proposal, though widely disregarded by congressional appropriators, would cut $31.4 billion from SSDI over 10 years, according to the Washington Post.
“I recognize that he’s going to be saving Social Security Retirement, but he’s not saving Social Security Disability Insurance, which benefits more than 10 million Americans,” NBC’s Peter Alexander told Mulvaney in a press briefing Tuesday, pointing to Trump’s repeated campaign promises not to cut Social Security. “So is the President keeping his promise on that program?”
Mulvaney argued that SSDI “is not what most people would consider to be Social Security.”
via Talking Points Memo.
President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled its third budget proposal Monday, cementing a vision for the United States that bolsters funding for defense and border walls, while severely cutting social programs for the nation’s poorest.
The $4.7 trillion budget proposal, which encompasses everything from funding for food aid, education, and health care to national defense, seeks to slash $845 billion from Medicare — a program Trump notably promised to leave untouched — cut from Medicaid through major structural reforms, as well as a 9 percent cut across non-defense programs, all while increasing the defense budget to $750 billion, 5 percent more than the 2019 budget.
via Vox.
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The Trump administration has sent a grim message to America’s seniors in its 2020 spending proposal. It goes something like this: older Americans living on fixed incomes – especially the elderly poor – must get by with less.
