For example, the Congressional Budget Office, the legislative branch’s scorekeeper and — despite what you might have heard — an honest broker, projects annual growth of 1.9 percent. That’s a 28 percent reduction to the existing Medicaid budget plan. According to current Congressional Budget Office projections, 14 million poor Americans are already likely to lose their health care if the Republican plan becomes law. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyElections have consequences, and the release of the first Trump budget is a glaring example. We need legislators from both parties to keep the Trump budget travesty from going any further.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2017 18:45 UTC