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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

And the Award Goes to ...

The Trump Administration's insensitive policies are legion; that makes them tough to rank.  But so far this week, the winners are:
  • Bronze: The amount in the federal budget for 2020 for work-study programs is less than half that appropriated for the current year.  The shortfall?   From $1.13 billion to $500 million.
  • Silver: To the Commander in Cheat for yet again demanding $8.6 billion for his vanity wall
  • Gold: Hope you're sitting down for this one. A total of $1.9 trillion in cuts to programs like Medicaid have been proposed, accompanied by work requirements for Medicaid recipients, as well as an $845 billion budget cut for Medicare
Those kinds of numbers make cutting things like ongoing aid to Puerto Rico by $200 million seem almost paltry.

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