The budget plan passed by the House this week includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. To offset the $4.5 trillion, the plan includes severe spending cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, and Social Security.
Seventy-two million Americans rely on Medicaid, half of them children. Forty-two million Americans receive food stamps.
Federal workers at the Social Security Administration learned Wednesday that a plan was already underway to cut 50 percent of staff, as well as 1,200 field office locations.
Such deep cuts to SSA, already at historically low staffing (far fewer staff than when America had 150 million residents, not 330 million) will cause significant degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed.