White House pitches budget as welfare reform
Source: Politico
The White House budget will suggest taking an ax to safety net programs like food stamps and popular family benefits like the child tax credit.
By SARAH FERRIS 05/22/2017 02:04 PM EDT
The Trump administration is billing its budget as a plan to “reform the welfare system” and replace “dependency with dignity of work,” while saving $274 billion over 10 years, according to a four-page memo obtained by POLITICO.
The White House budget, to be released Tuesday, will suggest taking an ax to safety net programs like food stamps and popular family benefits like the child tax credit, in order to achieve the ambitious goal of balancing the federal budget over a decade.
About $193 billion of the estimated savings would come from controversial changes to food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with tighter work rules for beneficiaries and restrictions limiting benefits to people who are authorized to work in the United States.
Under the proposal, the White House estimates changes to the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit would save $40 billion over 10 years. And changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program are expected to save $21 billion over that time.
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The money would immediately go out the door for tax cuts to the wealthy.
Nothing more than a transfer of wealth upwards.
As if we didn't see that coming.
...or what they're doing over there! Just keep watching what I titillate you with. Well take care of everything and you'll find out soon enough. Remember....here to MAGA!
He's batting 1000. Too bad he's not playing baseball.
and hasn't paid a dime in taxes, because of his reliance on him being a dead beat developer.
And this semantics of “dependency with dignity of work,” what the f*** does that mean, this ass**** bankrupts everyone and everything and leaves mom and pop operation holding the empty bag of sh*t he gives them and others.
His total "budget " package adds up to over 1.7 trillion in cuts.
Why don't we the tax payers limit is f****ing riding on Air Force one that would start balancing the budget with the “dependency with dignity of work" BS that he and Mulvaney, Ryan and McConnell are trying implement.
What a bunch of ass****s
