![Column: The GOP attack on the safety net and middle-class programs begins to take shape](/static/images/error.jpg)
Column: The GOP attack on the safety net and middle-class programs begins to take shape
LA TimesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, right, joined by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, while he was trying to shepherd a spending bill to enactment in December over Donald Trump’s opposition. Proposals that would cut Medicaid benefits or eligibility for thousands of Americans are titled “Making Medicaid Work for the Most Vulnerable.” A sheaf of proposals to raise costs for Obamacare enrollees comes under the anodyne heading, “Reimagining the Affordable Care Act.” Arrington hasn’t commented publicly on the leaked document. But he has made his name as a budget hawk: “We ought to be able to unleash growth through tax cuts,” he told the Wall Street Journal after the November election, “and we ought to be able to bend the spending curve.” How many of these proposals can actually be enacted by the current Congress is unclear, since the GOP majority is narrow in the Senate and razor-thin in the House. The committee also advocates paring back the federal share of Medicaid spending on enrollees signed up under the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which brought childless low-income adults into the program, to the percentage paid under traditional Medicaid. The committee proposes reducing federal spending on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the federal-state program generally described as “welfare,” by 10%, to produce $15 billion in savings over a decade.
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'Pretty drastic': GOP lawmakers urge Trump to scale back cuts hurting their states
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Trump budget would cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while expanding tax cuts for the rich
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