I think it is Orwellian to present a budget that tears a huge hole in the safety net as one that is, in fact, designed t...
It does this by converting Medicaid into a block grant program that provides inadequate funding that fails to keep pace ...
Let's put this hearing in context. The Republican budget takes a lopsided approach to addressing our deficit.
America absolutely must have taxes and safety net programs, even though they reduce the reward to working.
The people that are visiting your offices are terrified that the Republican approach to Medicaid will be adopted.
While today's hearing is titled 'Strengthening the Safety Net,' it is mostly an effort to sugarcoat a Republican budget ...
This week presents a very clear contrast in the priorities between Republicans and the Democrats in Congress.
If our goal simply is to take a hatchet to part of the budget in order to meet certain targets while refusing to take a ...
the Republican budget refuses to eliminate one single tax break for the purpose of deficit reduction.
The Republican budget cuts $810 billion from Medicaid.
It means that their budget hits everyone and everything else harder. That is simple math.
It attempts to balance the federal budget on the backs of the poor, by gutting federal spending on safety net programs.
There is a difference between reform and just taking a hatchet to important social safety net programs.
It ignores the advice of bipartisan commissions that say that any credible, responsible approach to reducing the deficit...
If you look at their budget, they cut $800 billion out of Medicaid over 10 years.
I am more than a little frustrated that we seem to have an inability to accept some of the successes.
First, I would observe that while spending on safety net programs is high now it is largely the function of the economic...
I think it would be better if we tried to take the programs that work, try and refine them.
