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The
White House did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
A Republican healthcare bill that passed the U.S. House of
Representatives in early May seeks to overhaul the national
healthcare system and cut more than $800 billion over the next
10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program
for the poor and disabled.
The healthcare bill faces a difficult time in the Senate, where
Democrats and some Republicans worry about its impact on costs
for low-income Americans, among other issues.
“In yet another broken promise to working people, President
Trump's budget pulls the rug out from so many who need help,"
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, in
response to the report. "This budget is taking the fast lane to
rejection by the American people and both parties in Congress"
The Post report said the White House would also give individual
U.S. states more autonomy over a variety of anti-poverty poverty
programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, or SNAP, the largest U.S. anti-hunger program, which
was formerly called the food stamp program.
More than 44 million Americans received benefits from the SNAP
program in February, according to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
(Reporting by Mike Stone, Roberta Rampton and Matt Spetalnick;
Editing by Mary Milliken; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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