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July 19, 2017

House Budget Plan Guts Health and Welfare Spending, Boosts Military
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The Republican-controlled House Budget Committee is set to vote today on
a draft budget that would slash welfare spending, gut financial
regulations, rewrite the tax code to favor the wealthy and slash $500
billion from Medicare and $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and Obamacare over
the next decade. The budget would also add another $30 billion to
Trump's record-setting $668 billion request for Pentagon spending.


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