Washington Post
By: Jeff Stein
The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve a $7 billion cut to the Children’s Health Insurance Program as part of a package to reduce a range of previously agreed upon federal spending.
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The Trump administration is asking Congress to cut about $2 billion from CHIP’s special contingency fund, which was created to direct emergency money to the states that administer the program if they run out of funds, said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. … “This really could be a problem for CHIP,” Alker said. “It sets a very dangerous precedent for the program.”
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