Chasing Tax Cuts, Trump and Republicans Want to Make States Pay

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : His new budget proposed scaling back federal aid to states on programs varying from public education to mental health.
56% : "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that if this proposal were to go forward, there would absolutely be people losing their assistance," Ms. Johnson added.
55% : The result, he added, likely would be "hundreds of thousands of Coloradans losing the health care they have today.
52% : " On Sunday, House Republicans released a draft plan for Medicaid that would limit states' future ability to tax hospitals and other medical providers, a move meant to undercut a strategy that has historically helped those officials obtain federal funding.
50% : G.O.P. lawmakers have also targeted Medicaid, considering at times whether to limit the amount they reimburse states for covering low-income patients.
48% : Republican lawmakers have eagerly embraced the president's cost-cutting philosophy, as they scramble to reduce spending and find ways to offset the price tag of their tax package.
48% : While Republicans have dialed back some of their earlier, more aggressive proposals to cut the program, they still have tried to rethink some of the financing in Medicaid so that they can extract more than $800 billion in health-related savings over the next decade to pay for their tax ambitions.
48% : Studying a menu of early options, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found in an analysis released earlier this month that state budgets would be able to absorb some, but not all, of the financial blow from a loss in federal funding, likely resulting in millions of people losing benefits.
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46% : "With the magnitude of the reduction in federal financing for Medicaid, it seems like it would be very challenging for states to make up and offset that amount and that magnitude of reduction," said Robin Rudowitz, the director of the program on Medicaid and the uninsured at Kaiser Family Foundation.
43% : If congressional Republicans sharply reduce the amount they reimburse states for Medicaid, as some lawmakers have proposed, then Colorado is unlikely to be able to pick up the entire bill, Mr. Polis said.
41% : Trump says he might join Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Turkey.
40% : And Republicans in Congress this week proposed forcing local governments to assume a greater share of the costs for food stamps and other federal anti-poverty programs.
39% : Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, pointed to the example of Medicaid, the federally backed program managed by the states that provides health insurance to low-income families.
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36% : T. Vought, the White House budget director, denounced broad categories of federal spending as wasteful or "woke."
35% : Mr. Trump also targeted more than $1 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that its pollution-reducing grants had become a financial "crutch for states.
33% : Mr. Trump's budget threatened to leave states in a "precarious position to backfill billions of dollars for people, and to be frank, states can't do that," said Kim Johnson, the senior director for public policy at the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which supports greater federal spending on rental assistance.

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