Trump order targets wide swathe of public assistance programs

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

The Trump administration is seeking to completely revamp the country’s social safety net, targeting recipients of Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance.

Trump is doing so through a sweeping executive order that was quietly issued earlier this week — and that largely flew under the radar.

It calls on the Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture and other agencies across the federal government to craft new rules requiring that beneficiaries of a host of programs work or lose their benefits.

Trump argued with the order, which has been in the works since last year, that the programs have grown too large while failing to move needy people out of government help.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/383106-trump-order-targets-wide-swathe-of-public-assistance-programs

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Trump is an insecure pathetic loser who hates those less fortunate than him

[jaysunb]

1. This is why THEY voted for him...among other dispicable reasons. n/t

[getagrip_already]

24. "They" are some of the most needy beneficiaries.....

These services provide assistance to a lot of rural white areas living in poverty. A lot of trump voters get benefits.

Will the cuts be made across the board, or only in urban areas is the real question.

[uppityperson]

2. Link? Thanks

[left-of-center2012]

3. You need to add the link to your post

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/383106-trump-order-targets-wide-swathe-of-public-assistance-programs

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Thought I did

Not sure why it didn't show but it's there on update

[msongs]

4. and here I thought the constitution made congress in charge of spending nt

[CrispyQ]

29. And I thought Congress had to approve attacking another country, too.

Again, IOKIYR.

[Farmer-Rick]

5. What a pee-pee f*ck head

Go back to your prostitutes, money laundering and petty crimes. Leave our country alone you election stealing slime ball. You need to resign now.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Ryan is whistling a happy tune as he leaves the WH and DC.

[Corgigal]

8. Last time I checked the stats

more white people use those programs, but Trump voters don't believe. This is not the way to treat our citizens.

He can leave now.

[PatSeg]

9. It is like he knows his days are numbered

and he has to spread as much destruction while he can. That is all he does, destroy everything he can.

[rusty quoin]

18. I know. He never did any good. At my age I know he is all about destruction for his own benefit

[PatSeg]

26. It is like he does it

just because he can. I've never seen anything like it. He reminds me of a Saturday morning cartoon villain drunk with power.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. I passed the word to my sister. She has Parkinson's and needs time to get her resume ready.

Does anyone know of work someone with trembling hands can do? Maybe work making milkshakes at McDonald's?

In all seriousness, though, I'm really worried for her. Her life depends on all those social safety net programs the Republicans so despise. She's played life by the rules and worked hard all her life; she didn't wake up one day and decide, "I think my life is too good, I think I'll have a debilitating degenerative disease." It's the cards she's been dealt, and she's doing the best she can to get through every day. She doesn't need the added stress of knowing that her access to food or medical care could be eliminated in an instant by some Republican's pen.

Trump isn't the problem -- it's the entire Republican establishment. They've wanted to screw over everyone who's not rich ever since the Great Society became the accepted norm. Reagan was the real starting point, with Dubya and now IQ45 accelerating the attack. Now that they've figured out how to do it on the sly, it's even more important to be diligent and active. They're not going to be satisfied until they own everything -- and everyone.

[salin]

11. Mick Mulvaney (I suspect) strikes again... Bankrupt the Treasury for the wealthy

and laugh as others starve. Oh - "Christian Nation!" - says those supporters worshiping the golden trump/calf.

[not fooled]

19. Yes

give dirty donnie some credit. he didn't come up with this on his own. the kook brothers pull his and mulvaney's strings.

Although he's vicious enough to be on board.

Oh, and all the deplorables and other idiots who think this is a good thing don't see the path leading from this to Social Security, Medicare, and other programs that benefit them, too.

[C Moon]

12. Sounds like he's trying to take away a safety net so we'll have another Great Depression...

when he gets done with his fucked up economics.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. And how does this improve the lives of the American people??

Isn't that the job of the POTUS??

[Heartstrings]

14. Yes, any other ordinary, normal POTUS....

Nothing is "normal" about this entire administration however....

[Rhiannon12866]

15. It boggles the mind that anyone could support someone who does everything to make life worse

For Americans - every chance he gets! And you're right, nothing is "normal" about him - we've ceased to have a complete functioning government - these are scary times!

[PaulX2]

16. One Sick Bastard

And the Republicans are playing along like they want to disappear forever.

Good riddance.

[riversedge]

17. It will hit those barely on so hard, so hard.

[HeiressofBickworth]

20. Will trump also issue orders to those agencies

to provide the jobs for those who are required to have jobs?

Trump is just too stupid to understand that jobs need to be available.

Or, maybe that is the plan. Institute requirements that cannot be met, then alleging the programs aren't working and there for can be eliminated. It fits with his full-length way of not taking responsibility for the result of his actions.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Which means when they lose their jobs during recession they lost their benefits

Unintelligent Design

[watoos]

22. I apologize for not knowing all of the facts

but is this the order that requires people to work 30 hours/week? Employers will then have to provide benefits like insurance for them and employers won't want to do that so these people just aren't going to get hired?

Trump needs to cut costs some place those Tomahawk missiles are a million dollars a pop.

[DeminPennswoods]

23. These rules are targeted at people who, at first glance, look "able"

but aren't really employable. For ex, people with ADHD or PTSD who might look to an uninformed person like they can hold a job, but they really can't because they can't concentrate for long periods of time or have more bad days than good.

[Mountain Mule]

25. That's a 1,2,3 KNOCK-OUT Punch for this old gal

I am disabled, 66 years-old and lost pretty much all my savings due to medical bills I incurred over the course of a catastrophic illness. Without my housing voucher, I will end up camped on Colorado's public lands - and I mean TENT camping. Without my snap benefit, I will sometimes be forced to go hungry and my meals will come from the mostly past due date cans of this and that, distributed by the local senior center. Without Medicaid, I will no longer be able to afford a home care-giver who comes and helps me out when my pain gets too bad.

In short, Twitler will be signing my death warrant and those of thousands (if not millions) of Americans who are no different than I. Before my chronic health condition and resulting disability hit, I was a librarian and a teacher for 30 years. I loved my work, but now in my so-called "golden years," I feel that I have been discarded like some broken bit of machinery.

I suppose the psychopath now pretending to be our president* will be sending us all off to the soylvent green factory next.

I am very angry over all this and more than a little afraid.

[RKP5637]

28. And the GOP congress will sit on their asses watching it happen and not saying

a damn thing. Many (most?) are cut from the same piece of cloth as tRump.

[RKP5637]

27. Trumps gets high in life by destroying people. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

30. There are no words to describe how much I hate this man.

I hope karma comes back to bite him tenfold. He is pure evil.

[Freelancer]

31. Maybe SNAP should be part of the military budget

It always goes up. Sacred.