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Wednesday, April 19th, 2023

Republican states could be hit hardest by McCarthy’s proposed spending cuts

Author:     Andy Sullivan
Source:     Reuters
Publication Date:     April 17, 202311:32 AM PDT
 Link: Republican states could be hit hardest by McCarthy’s proposed spending cuts
Stephan:  

It is amazing to me that Red state voters don’t seem to understand that the people they elect at both the state and federal level have no interest in fostering their wellbeing; they have a very different agenda. Here is yet another example of this.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy Credit: Reuters / Brendan McDermid

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The spending-cut proposals unveiled by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday could fall hardest on people in Republican-leaning states, a Reuters analysis of federal spending data found.

McCarthy’s plan, which he presented as a condition for raising the United States’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, calls for cutting some agency budgets by 7% this year and capping their growth by 1% annually after that.

It also would impose stiffer work requirements on some benefit programs, which could reduce the number of people who receive them.

McCarthy only laid out broad contours on Monday, rather than unveiling finished legislation, which makes it difficult to determine the proposed cuts’ precise toll.

But a Reuters analysis of federal spending data indicates that his proposed domestic-spending caps could be felt most acutely in the states that backed Republican President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Those 25 states received roughly $172 billion in the last fiscal year for highway construction, housing, public health and […]

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