Trump Budget Calls For $610B Medicaid Cut On Top Of AHCA

The president's proposed 2018 budget achieves most of its entitlement and healthcare savings from cuts to Medicaid, according to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, and the president also proposes policies that would significantly cut federal funding of the Children's Health Insurance Program. The president's budget proposal, similar to the House GOP's American Health Care Act, cut Medicaid far beyond simply axing the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. The budget proposes to cap federal funding of the program,...