Trump’s 2020 budget takes aim at the poor with $700 billion cut to Medicaid

The White House released its 2020 budget proposal on Monday, proposing more than $1 trillion in cuts to the popular programs Medicare and Medicaid and giving insight into what the executive branch would do if Congress didn’t control the federal government’s pocketbook.

The most notable cut comes out of Medicaid, a health program for people who are low-income or have a disability, which Trump proposes cutting by $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

The budget calls for Med...