Republicans Still Plan to Cut Medicaid, Food Stamps and Other Benefits

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Republicans are going ahead with long-standing plans to trim Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits, even though party moderates are balking at cutting programs that aid the poor while hundreds of thousands are homeless from Hurricane Katrina.

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Cuts are planned for the Medicaid program for the poor and disabled, student loan subsidies for banks, farm subsidies and food stamps, among others. Katrina has helped solidify opposition to them among moderates in both parties.

"At a time when millions are displaced and seeking federal and state assistance, we believe it is inappropriate to move forward on ... a legislative package that would cut funding for Medicaid, food stamps ... housing and education," Sens. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., wrote in a letter this week to the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

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link http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_budget;_ylt=AhByfwuZ4ZjxA308T.Tm1fOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

Compassionate conservative... :puke:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Time for LTTE

We have thousands of IDPs here in Arkansas, and I hate to think how they will be able to live here for several months without help. Think I need to add that we need to ask Con. Boozman (R-AR) if he is going to be one of those who will deny poor people these funds.