And here they go: Democrats blast safety net cuts in Trump budget as 'malicious'

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Russell Vought, acting White House budget director, defended Trump’s plan, saying it represents an attempt to be fiscally responsible at a time of trillion-dollar budget deficits.

He said the president is requesting more spending cuts than any other president in history and he complained that Trump so far has been “blatantly ignored” by Congress.

Vought told the committee that the president’s budget plan would save $517 billion in spending over 10 years in Medicare, a program that many Democrats want to expand.

The president’s proposal also includes work requirements for Medicaid recipients, and it would convert Medicaid to a state-administered program supported by federal block grants.

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar said 29,000 children in her state of Minnesota would lose access to free school meals if the administration’s plan to cut those meals became law.

“What this budget does is quite literally take food out of the mouths of children,” while increasing spending on defense, Omar said. “How is the assessment made what child deserves to eat and what child doesn’t?”


So this time around we're killing grandma, thousands will die in the streets, and thousands of children will have food taken out of their mouths.