Trump’s Former Budget Director Is Advising GOP to Cut Medicaid by $2 Trillion

Russ Vought, the right-wing official who served as budget director for the Trump administration, is reportedly playing a significant advisory role for House Republicans as they seek to leverage a fast-approaching debt ceiling crisis to enact spending cuts that would disproportionately impact low-income households. . . . Vought’s agenda, the Post noted, proposes $9 trillion in federal spending cuts over the next 10 years, targeting thousands of domestic programs including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).