Trump’s Former Budget Director Is Advising GOP to Cut Medicaid by $2 Trillion

Russ Vought is urging House GOP to gut many federal programs that low-income people rely on to meet basic needs.

Vought’s proposed cuts to SNAP — a food aid program long attacked by Republicans — would amount to $400 billion. A

Vought, who is also urging Republicans to cut Labor Department funding in half and slash the Affordable Care Act, presents such austerity as needed to rein in an out-of-control federal bureaucracy. But as thenotes, Vought “oversaw enormous increases in the national debt as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget,” making clear to critics that his priority is gutting programs that low-income people rely on to meet basic needs.

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