{"slug":"trump-social-security-medicaid-cuts-proposals","title":"Social Safety Net Attacks: Proposed Medicaid Cuts, Social Security Reductions","date":"2017-05-23","lastUpdated":"2020-02-10","description":"Despite campaign promises that he would not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, Trump's administrations submitted budget proposals in each of his first-term years that proposed significant reductions to Medicaid, food stamps (SNAP), and other safety net programs. His 2018 budget proposed cutting Medicaid by $610 billion over 10 years through a block grant conversion, cutting SNAP by $193 billion, and eliminating student loan forgiveness programs. The ACA repeal attempt (documented separately) would have also eliminated the ACA's Medicaid expansion affecting 14 million people.","summary":"Trump's first budget proposal, released May 23, 2017, proposed over $3 trillion in safety net cuts over 10 years — including $610 billion in Medicaid cuts through block grant conversion, $193 billion in SNAP cuts, and $64 billion in Social Security disability cuts. The proposals contradicted Trump's repeated campaign promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. While the budgets were largely dead on arrival in Congress, they represented the administration's stated priorities and established the ideological context for the ACA repeal effort. In February 2020, Trump's budget proposed cutting Social Security disability insurance by $70 billion.","category":"federal-dismantlement","severity":"major","ongoing":false,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html","title":"Trump Budget Proposes Sharp Cuts to Safety Net Programs","publisher":"The New York Times"},{"url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-safety-net-cuts/2017/05/23/story.html","title":"Trump's first budget: $3 trillion in safety net cuts","publisher":"The Washington Post"},{"url":"https://apnews.com/article/trump-budget-medicaid-cuts-safety-net","title":"Trump budget proposals: Medicaid, SNAP, disability cuts","publisher":"The Associated Press"},{"url":"https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-care-and-other-programs","title":"Trump Budget: Deeply Cuts Health Care and Other Programs","publisher":"Center on Budget and Policy Priorities"}],"draft":false,"status":"published","tags":["safety-net","Medicaid","Social-Security","SNAP","first-term","budget","federal-dismantlement"],"relatedEntries":[],"timeline":[{"date":"2015-03-01","title":"Trump promises not to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid","summary":"Trump explicitly distinguishes himself from other Republican candidates by promising not to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid: 'I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican.'"},{"date":"2017-05-23","title":"First budget proposal: $3 trillion in safety net cuts","summary":"Trump's first budget proposes $3 trillion in safety net reductions over 10 years, including $610 billion in Medicaid cuts through block grants, $193 billion in SNAP cuts, and Social Security disability cuts."},{"date":"2018-02-12","title":"Second budget: continued safety net reduction proposals","summary":"Trump's second budget continues the pattern of proposing major safety net cuts, including Medicaid per-capita caps and additional SNAP restrictions."},{"date":"2020-02-10","title":"2020 budget: $70B Social Security cuts","summary":"Trump's 2020 budget proposes $70 billion in Social Security disability cuts, $756 billion in Medicare cuts, and $920 billion in Medicaid cuts — the largest proposed safety net reductions of his presidency."}],"location":{"name":"Washington, D.C.","lat":38.9072,"lng":-77.0369},"custom":{"era":"first-term","posture":"reported","warCrimeClassification":"enabling","internationalLaw":[],"iccRelevance":false,"victims":"Low-income Americans dependent on Medicaid for healthcare; SNAP recipients dependent on food assistance; disabled Americans on Social Security disability insurance; elderly and chronically ill people whose ACA coverage depended on the Medicaid expansion","structuredPerpetrators":[{"name":"Donald Trump","role":"President; submitted budgets proposing major safety net cuts despite campaign promises not to cut these programs","institution":"White House / Office of Management and Budget"},{"name":"Mick Mulvaney","role":"OMB Director; designed and defended first-term budget proposals including safety net cuts","institution":"Office of Management and Budget"}],"updateLog":[{"date":"2020-02-10","summary":"Updated with 2020 budget proposal data."}]}}