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House Republicans unveiled a budget blueprint proposing trillions in spending cuts over 10 years, targeting steep reductions to Medicaid and food assistance programs. The plan seeks $2 trillion in Medicaid cuts and $800 billion from SNAP. It also calls for establishing a commission to propose changes to Social Security and Medicare. Democrats criticized the proposal as pushing "cruel cuts" that will hurt access to healthcare and raise costs for many. If enacted, the budget would slash nearly $5 trillion from discretionary spending and $9 trillion from mandatory programs over a decade. However, the proposal is unlikely to become law given Democratic control of the Senate. The resolution indicates Republicans remain committed to large cuts across many public services and low-income programs.

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[-] ViciousTurducken@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

The actual answer is that not paying your public officials makes them even more susceptible to corruption.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'd rather if failure to create budgets was defined as failure to enact their duty and then we held new elections.

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