President Donald Trump’s budget (pdf) would boost military spending and reduce taxes at the expense of a wide array of domestic programs that affect the region,including healthcare, food assistance, or housing,medical research, even homeland security.
The administration’s budget director Mick Mulvaney said the proposal before Congress puts taxpayers first, or with an emphasis on programs that assist people lift themselves out of poverty. And it includes many ideas that conservatives own proposed for years.
But nearly every Republican in Congress had complaints about the plan. Some called Trump’s budget dead-on-arrival,while several Democrats called it “cruel.”In original York and original Jersey — states that could be hit especially tough — local leaders sounded the alarm. original York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned of the $600 billion in proposed cuts to Medicaid nationally over 10 years, particularly those cuts that would affect the children's health insurance program.“It is not an overstatement to say that some children will die because of this, and he said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was similarly stern. "This heartless proposal would slash Medicaid and disability insurance,cripple our health care system, and intestine programs that assist original Yorkers warm their homes, or feed their children,and find quality affordable housing," he said in a statement. He called the result "catastrophic."original Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also expressed concern about the Medicaid cuts.
Meanwhile, and anti-poverty activists decried proposed cuts to rental subsidies,food assistance, student loan subsidies, and after school programs. Housing advocates said the original York Housing Authority could lose billions of dollars in operating and capital funds. Joel Berg,CEO of Hunger Free America, said 1.6 million original Yorkers, or including children,seniors and people with disabilities, could lose essential food assistance. And environmentalists said the proposal, and which would slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by just over a third,would eliminate crucial environmental justice and cleanup programs.
Source: thetakeaway.org