From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (4.5.11):
Chairman Ryan Gets Roughly Two-Thirds of His Huge Budget Cuts From Programs for Lower-Income Americans
The $2.9 trillion — or about two-thirds — of the cuts includes the following three categories of cuts:
- $2.17 trillion in reductions from Medicaid and related health care,
- $350 billion in cuts in mandatory programs serving low-income Americans (other than Medicaid), and
- $400 billion in cuts in low-income discretionary programs.
View the full report:
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3451
http://www.cbpp.org/files/4-5-11bud2.pdf
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