What Krugman said in today's NYT. The House GOP has a budget to answer the Biden administration's document and according to Krugman it's about what you would expect from them. Purporting to trim 3 trillion dollars from the federal deficit over the next 10 years without raising taxes, the House budget would include savage cuts to Medicaid and virtually every discretionary spending on government programs outside of Social Security, Medicare and Defense.
As anyone with a modicum of intelligence and decency knows, much of the spending that would be cut benefits many of the voters these congresscritters represent. Medicaid pays for grandma's stay at the local nursing home. SNAP, the successor to Food Stamps sometimes makes the difference between paying utilities and putting food on the table. It would serve MAGA world right if these cuts were enacted. Then we would find out how many people actually buy what Republicans are selling.
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