{"id":136349,"date":"2018-05-09T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136349"},"modified":"2018-05-09T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:43:23","slug":"balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-poor-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-poor-children.html","title":{"rendered":"Balancing the budget on the backs of poor children"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHIP (the Children’s Health Insurance Program) is highly popular (and highly effective), but the GOP in Congress let its funding lapse (they were “too busy” trying to repeal the ACA), and now Trump is proposing that Congress try to claw back some of the wildly imbalanced budget he’s responsible for (through big military hikes and huge tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations) by cutting funding for CHIP.<\/p>\n

Yes, the policy position of the head of the GOP is that the tax cut he got passed for himself be paid for in part by reducing medical care funding for poor children.<\/p>\n

It’s remarkably Dickensian, but, hey, that’s our president, and his party. Something to remember (yet again) this November, and certainly a question I’d like to see asked of every GOP congressional candidate heading into that election.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +New York Magazine<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump Adds \u2018Cutting Children\u2019s Health Care\u2019 to GOP\u2019s 2018 Platform https:\/\/nym.ag\/2FZR1HZ<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nTrump Adds \u2018Cutting Kids\u2019 Health-Care\u2019 to 2018 GOP Platform<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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CHIP (the Children’s Health Insurance Program) is highly popular (and highly effective), but the GOP in Congress let its funding lapse (they were “too busy” trying to repeal the ACA), and now Trump is proposing that Congress try to claw back some of the wildly imbalanced budget he’s responsible for (through big military hikes and … Continue reading “Balancing the budget on the backs of poor children”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,374,358,376,1071],"tags":[1237,1247,1077],"class_list":["post-136349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-trump","tag-chip","tag-taxcuts","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-talks-to-kids.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134879,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/oh-hey-look-congress-uninsured-9-million-children-pregnant-women.html","url_meta":{"origin":136349,"position":0},"title":"Oh, hey, look, Congress uninsured 9 million children and pregnant women","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Oct-17 11:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Though, to be fair, it wasn't through some intentional belt-tightening free-marketing tax-cutting cruelty-injecting policy action, but by simply never getting around to renewing the CHIP program. 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