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| Topic | Trump proposes $15 billion spending cuts, targets children's health program |
| Balrog0 05/10/18 2:47:29 PM #20: | Darkman124 posted... the money would be spent eventually, it's not like it's burned into ash. it mostly goes to HHS, historically https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2018/05/08/7-billion-in-chip-cuts/ The other five billion dollars in cuts are more complicated to explain. Essentially, when Congress specifies annual CHIP allotments, they leave a little wiggle room in case state spending is higher than expected. This is another part of Congressional commitment to making sure CHIP is fully funded, even though it is a block grant. Over time, this results in some CHIP funds that are authorized but not expended, resulting in budget authority that exceeds outlays. Congress is aware of this, and over the last several years, they have come to bipartisan agreements about how to reallocate this budget authority to allow for investments in other programs that serve children. Rescinding these funds is unlikely to impact states CHIP programs immediately, but it violates that bipartisan agreement in Congress to manage these funds in ways that continue to help low income children and families. --- It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues . . . allow them a language as lousy as their lives ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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