Republicans are quietly cutting Medicare, too, says author

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdDf1T67ky4

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Amendment To Slash Defense Funding for Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKsOlS74F_A

 

Trump Administration Moves to End Food Stamps for 3 Million People - Bloomberg

The Trump administration is moving to end food stamp benefits for 3 million people with proposed new regulations curtailing the leeway of states to automatically enroll residents who receive welfare benefits.....
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-23/trump-administration-moves-to-end-food-stamps-for-3-million

PBS chief: 'I don't understand' why Trump keeps trying to defund us - The Hill

Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, said she wishes she knew why the Trump administration has proposed to eliminate funding for the network for a third year in a row...
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/436000-pbs-chief-i-dont-understand-why-trump-keeps-trying-to-defund-us

Trump budget seeks cuts in science funding - The Washington Post

President Trump’s third budget request, released Monday, again seeks cuts to a number of scientific and medical research enterprises, including a 13 percent cut to the National Science Foundation, a 12 percent cut at the National Institutes of Health and the termination of an Energy Department program that funds speculative technologies deemed too risky for private investors...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/11/trump-budget-seeks-cuts-science-funding/

U.S. Will No Longer Fund Peace-Building Programs For Palestinians - NPR

The U.S. has cut hundreds of millions of dollars for Palestinians, to pressure Palestinian leaders to work with the U.S. on peace efforts. ....
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/15/648222130/u-s-will-no-longer-fund-peace-building-programs-for-palestinians

Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children’s Health Insurance Program - The Washington Post

A senior administration official said Democrats should recognize that much of the package represents untapped accounts. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-calls-on-congress-to-pull-back-15-billion-in-spending-including-on-childrens-health-insurance-program/2018/05/07/9427de18-5216-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html

Trump administration ponders next Medicaid move: Attacking disabled Americans

The Trump administration, working with Republican states, has come up with its next evil plan to needlessly punish already vulnerable people: capping lifetime Medicaid benefits. A number of states (Arizona, Kansas, Utah, Maine, and Wisconsin) are seeking waivers from the Trump administration to allow them to cut care off to enrollees.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/2/6/1739236/-Trump-administration-ponders-next-Medicaid-move-attacking-disabled-Americans

Hatch, leading the fight for $1.5 trillion deficit-boosting tax cuts, says we can't afford CHIP

On the Senate floor Thursday, while arguing that the $1.5 trillion tax cuts bill that his committee has shepherded to the floor is good policy, Sen. Orrin Hatch said the nation can't afford the Children's Health Insurance Program unless other spending cuts are made. The invaluable Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio pressed Hatch on the fact that CHIP funding lapsed 31 days ago, and that states are now having to start informing CHIP clients that their coverage is going away, and asked why it wasn't the top priority of Republicans.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/30/1719944/-Hatch-leading-the-fight-for-1-5-trillion-deficit-boosting-tax-cuts-says-we-can-t-afford-CHIP

The brewing new health care fight in Congress, explained -- Vox

Republicans want to pay for CHIP and health center funding by cutting Obamacare and entitlement spending. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/3/16413936/voxcare-health-care-fight-chip-ipab

Robert Reich: There's Only One Cure for America's Economic Ills | Alternet

Corporations don't deserve a tax cut. On the contrary, they should pay exponentially more.....
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-theres-only-one-cure-americas-economic-ills

America gives $700bn to the military – but says healthcare is a luxury | Trevor Timm -- the guardian

On Monday, the Pentagon received even more money than it had asked for. Funding war is something that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on ....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/20/america-700bn-military-healthcare-luxury

Alaskan towns at risk from rising seas sound alarm as Trump pulls federal help | US news | The Guardian

Communities in danger of falling into the sea say assistance from Washington has dried up: ‘It feels like a complete abdication of responsibility on climate change’....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/10/alaska-coastal-towns-sea-level-rise-climate-change?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=238818&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection

Teen birth rates spiked in Texas after funding for family planning services was reduced by 67% in 2011

The study by Analisa Packham, who received her doctorate in economics from A&M in 2016 and now works at Miami University, claims the reduction of family planning services in Texas has resulted in the closure of 80 clinics and an increase in teen birth rates by 3.4 percent....
http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Teen-birth-rates-spiked-in-Texas-after-Planned-11283376.php

Before Charlottesville, Trump eliminated funding for group countering white supremacists -- ThinkProgress.org

A white supremacist rally in Virginia led to the deaths of three people and dozens of injuries over the weekend—less than two months after the White House halted funding for a program aimed at countering white nationalist extremism, despite warnings from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/before-charlottesville-trump-eliminated-funding-for-group-countering-white-supremacists-2be06e9432ad/

Conservative lawmakers think cuts to food stamps won’t hurt anyone. Evidence says that’s wrong. -- Vo

There's a shocking lack of research to support the push for huge cuts to food stamps. ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/7/15894168/conservative-cut-food-stamp-evidenc

Tom Price’s stunningly dishonest defense of Trumpcare -- ThinkProgress.org

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price would have you believe the same Trumpcare bill that would strip Medicaid coverage from 15 million Americans by 2026 somehow isn't a cut to Medicaid. Price made that claim in an exceedingly dishonest tweet posted Thursday afternoon. We need to break the beltway mentality. Billions in new spending is not a cut. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/tom-price-dishonest-tweet-3d2a73ffebf0

Health Care, Medicaid Cuts And The Opioid Crisis (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year: nearly 60,000. Far more than in car crashes. At the heart of that soaring drug death number, opioids. The daily opioid death toll around the country is shocking. Millions struggling with addiction. A big part of the answer has to be treatment. That costs money. Maybe $45 billion in the next decade. Maybe $190 billion. The Senate health care plan earmarks $2 billion. This hour On Point: Are we tackling the opioid crisis, or not? -- Tom Ashbrook

Interview: 

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/06/27/health-care-medicaid-cuts-opioid-crisis

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is defunding an anti-Nazi program

The Department of Homeland Security has inexplicably cut funds to a program intended to wean people off neo-Nazism.

Life After Hate had been scheduled to receive $400,000 during the final days of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to a report by Politico. After President Donald Trump’s administration decided to review a $10 million grant for the “Countering Violent Extremism” program, the Trump team decided to drop funding for Life After Hate....
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/23/trumps-department-of-homeland-security-is-defunding-an-anti-nazi-program/

Trump WH: Birth Control Mandate Is Unnecessary Because Of Planned Parenthood, Which We’ll Also Defund

The Trump administration's argument for letting lots of employers opt out of covering birth control is...not exactly bulletproof.

Yesterday, Vox reported that the Trump administration is considering a broad exemption to Obamacare's mandate on contraceptive coverage, according to a leaked draft of the proposed rule. If passed, the rule would allow virtually any employer, not just a religious one, to remove birth control coverage from its insurance plan if contraception violates the organization's religious beliefs or "moral convictions"—a broad and murky standard. ...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-wh-birth-control-mandate-is-unnecessary-because-of-planned-parenthood-which-well-also-defund