GOP Considering Cuts To Medicaid And Food Stamps

The Washington Post reports:

President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs.

One GOP tax adviser said lawmakers were looking at broadening work requirements for SNAP eligibility, something the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook recommends.

The last time Republicans controlled both branches of Congress and the White House, in the first two years of Trump’s first term, they came within one Senate vote of repealing the Affordable Care Act — amid a significant backlash even in GOP-controlled states to plans to cut Medicaid spending.

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