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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net
Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans.
Produced over the last year by Mr. Trumps budget director, Mick Mulvaney, it would reshuffle social welfare programs in a way that would make them easier to cut, scale back or restructure, according to several administration officials involved in the planning.
Among the most consequential ideas is a proposal to shift the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a subsistence benefit that provides aid to 42 million poor and working Americans, from the Agriculture Department to a new mega-agency that would have welfare in its title a term Mr. Trump uses as a pejorative catchall for most government benefit programs.
That proposal, which includes an equally ambitious plan to merge the Education and Labor Departments to consolidate work force programs, is not likely to gain the congressional approval needed to make the changes, Mr. Mulvaneys aides conceded in a phone call with reporters on Thursday.
But the rollout has a bigger long-term purpose, said Margaret Weichert, one of Mr. Mulvaneys deputies who drafted the proposal. She cast the proposal as a rallying cry for small government and said the audacity of the plan proved why many Americans voted for this president.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/behind-trumps-plan-to-overhaul-the-government-scaling-back-the-safety-net/ar-AAyZ1H0?li=BBnb7Kz
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)and fuck over everyone else.
Screwed up and this is one of the main things we must scream at the top of our lungs going into this election.
CozyMystery
(652 posts)I don't think the general population understands it. They have been brainwashed to think that their economic position is their own fault -- they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, work harder, etc., etc.
Any obstacles can be overcome by any individual. And if someone can't overcome the obstacle, then it is his/her fault that the obstacle is there in the first place. You made your bed and now you have to lie in it.
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