Trump Unveils Its 2018 Budget, Which Targets Health And Social Programs

Donald Trump will unveil his 2018 budget proposal on Tuesday, including cuts to health insurance and changes in anti-poverty programs, aiming to balance the US budget, according to a survey delivered Monday by the House white.

The proposal for the next fiscal year, which begins on October 1, includes an astronomical cut of $1,700 billion over 10 years in social programs for the poorest.
Several programs are under the spotlight, including food stamps for the poorest, worth $272 billion.
Conversely, the US president is proposing a 10% increase, or $54 billion, in the defense budget compared to 2017. This increase includes a boost of $ 2.6 billion for border control, Of which 1.6 billion will go to the construction of the wall on the Mexican border.
It also provides for a six-week "fully paid" parental leave, at an estimated cost of $18 billion over 10 years.
"We are not touching the broad lines of social security and we are not touching Medicare," public health insurance for over 65s, told White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
But Medicaid, health insurance for the poor, will suffer a $800 billion cut over a decade, as foreseen by Donald Trump's reform of Obamacare, the emblematic law of his predecessor Barack Obama.
According to an estimate of the parliamentary budget office, such cuts could prevent about 10 million Americans from receiving their Medicaid allowances.
The government plans to give more flexibility to States, in particular to condition access to certain aids to work.
"We will not measure our success by the amount of money we spend, but by the number of people we help," said Mulvaney.
"What we have done is try not to remove the safety net from the people who need it, but rather to try to find out if there are people who do not need it, who Need to find their way to work, "he added.
For this budget, the administration is counting on a projection of economic growth at 3% and assumes that the reform of taxation, which is in its infancy, will present a "neutral deficit", still according to M Mulvaney.
If Donald Trump's health system reform was validated in Congress, the budget also plans to remove funding from the Planned Parenthood family planning organization.
Congress is unlikely to approve the budget as it stands. However, it will have to find a compromise by 30 September, the end of the fiscal year 2017.