Trump welfare cuts will hurt the poor President Donald Trump is expected to meet with congressional Republican leaders to talk about 2018 plans for welfare and infrastructure changes in a meeting at Camp David over the weekend. The president and Republican lawmakers are expected to talk at the retreat about making cuts to anti-poverty and health care programs that benefit millions of low-income and poor Americans. Reuters that Trump will make moves to work on welfare in 2018. "We want to get our people off of welfare and back to work," Trump said in October of last year. "So important. It's out of control. It's out of control." Trump has proposed deep cuts to programs used by millions of low-income American families including food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). While Trump reveled in his December tax reform victory, the Senate passed stopgap spending with only temporary funding fixes for CHIP, the health insurance program that covers about 9 million children in the U.S. If Congress does not reauthorize CHIP funding, an estimated 1.9 million children in 25 states will lose their health insurance by the end of this month, and an additional 1 million will lose out in February, according to a Georgetown University report. In addition to health care, Trump plans to target food assistance for the poor. More than 42 million people in need—including children and elderly individuals—across the United States last year used food stamps, part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In his 2016 budget, Trump proposed cutting SNAP funding by $192 billion over 10 years, kicking millions of people off food stamps. Only 75 percent of people who qualify for food stamps actually use them. Many beneficiaries of the SNAP program work low-income or part-time jobs and struggle to make enough money to feed themselves or their families, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Despite proposed deep cuts, the president’s plans could face pushback in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he didn’t foresee Congress tackling welfare or entitlement changes in 2018. “The sensitivity of entitlements is such that you almost have to have a bipartisan agreement in order to achieve a result," McConnell said in December, according to Politico. However, GOP lawmakers in the House of Representatives, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, have voiced approval for Trump's welfare cuts. Ryan has also indicated that he wants to scale back Social Security, Medicaid and other anti-poverty programs in an effort to reduce America's debt.
Well good. now they will get their irresponsible asses off the couch in their section 8 apartment, stopping drinking the beer which they obtained by misappropriating their EBT card and actually have to go out and work for a living for dollars rather than my taxes providing welfare. (BTW -- for those who don't get it a portion of the above is sarcasm, another portion is sadly reality.) The need for public assistance varies, some truly need it and others abuse it.
Those programs cost less than a 100 billion a year combined while the military gets 650 billion a year and trumps tax cuts will cost trillions.
Those programs are no longer a safety net, they have morphed into a lifestyle choice. I'm all for helping people, but very very few should be on welfare for their entire life.
Doesn't matter if it's one percent of the budget, fact is the system is being scammed. For what it's worth I'm not in favor of corporate welfare either. Pentagon has plenty of money to work with, and so does the rest of corporate America.
There’s scammers everywhere; in government, in business and in the general population. The problem is the villainization of deserving people at the expense of a small minority.
There isn't anyone "deserves" welfare, it's a gift. Those that truly need it should be awarded this gift until they can get on their feet. The generosity of taxpayer dollars funds this gift, and I whole heartedly agree that a civil society should help those truly in need. The whole problem is that there are far too many people who believe they do deserve it, and have made it a career choice.