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The federal-state health insurance program for low-income Americans. Incidents involve cuts to Medicaid funding, work requirements, and eligibility restrictions that strip healthcare coverage from vulnerable populations.

2 incidents

May 22, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Civil Rights

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

One Big Beautiful Bill: $1 Trillion in Medicaid Cuts and $295 Billion in SNAP Cuts

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashes $863 billion from Medicaid and $295 billion from SNAP to fund $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest, projected to strip healthcare from 10.9 million people and food assistance from hundreds of thousands of older adults.

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May 23, 2017 Updated February 10, 2020 Federal Dismantlement

Major Abuse of Power

Social Safety Net Attacks: Proposed Medicaid Cuts, Social Security Reductions

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.

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safety-net Medicaid Social-Security SNAP first-term