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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Food stamps, environmental safeguards and denying Ozempic: The ways Republicans could pay for Trump’s tax cuts

Donald Trump and his Congressional allies could add requirements to welfare programs such as Medicaid, withhold prescription drugs from federal health care coverage, repeal environmental regulations and more in order to reduce federal spending and pay for his new round of tax cuts.

Trump is determined to cut taxes for Americans but doing so means the government will need to cut federal spending elsewhere, or risk raising the national debt by trillions of dollars.

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