Proposal

Shawnterise Anderson
ENC 1102
6/13/17
Initial Proposal
Big Cuts, Little funding
There are several programs and many reasons as to why they were implemented by and for the people of this country to better help assist in the anti-poverty efforts of many Americans. In my proposal, I want to present Donald Trump’s budget cuts and the impact of these cuts in the various programs that have been for many very beneficial.  I feel passionate about this topic because I feel as though if things go according to the way that trump has planned the middle-class and the poor will suffer greatly. I hope that my research will help me to understand his reasons for these cuts and if they will help us in the present and the future.
Funding
To begin I would like to discuss how funding works according to National Priorities Project funding for the various programs that we have comes from three different types of income. The first one being income taxes, in which 100 million American households file a federal tax return each year, and those income taxes make up the federal governments single largest revenue source. You also have payroll taxes that are paid by workers and employers, your corporate income taxes paid by businesses. The federal government raises trillions of dollars in tax revenues through these sources and these are the tax funds that either fund specific programs or they just fund the government in general. So, with all this money coming in from various forms of revenue even yours and mine own taxpayer dollars are paying for. Why is there a need to cut programs that are essential to many Americans?
Cutting
I have researched an article by the New York Times that Julie goes into grave detail to explain how Trumps budget cuts deeply into many programs and hits anti-poverty efforts rather harshly. Claire states that in Trumps new budget for 2018 programs like healthcare which he plans to slash more than $800 billion from Medicaid, food stamps which will be cut by $192 billion, student loans, disability payments, and many more welfare programs that will be cut by $272 billion. Now what do all these programs have in common yep you guessed it providing some type of benefit for the poor. Instead of investing his money into these programs Trump has a $4.1 trillion-dollar budget that he is more focused on putting money towards border security and beginning to build this wall he so desperately feels needs to be built.
Who the cuts affect?
Quoctrung and Susan explain in their article how much Trumps budget will affect women the most. In their research, they provide a table that shows various programs for women which is eight and has an eight percent decrease and four programs for men that has a two percent decrease. Trump has already gotten full throttled resistance from women. So, in their study which is gender- based budgeting they found out that the most cuts would come from the programs that spend more on women than the programs that spend money on men. Most of the programs that I stated in the cutting section fall under the programs that most women fall into which are also the same programs that women tend to benefit from.
Opinion/ Conclusion
From all the research that I have gathered I don’t see how anyone can just sit back as programs that many of us as women or poor Americans are taken from us or are cut out of the budget. I am a child of a single mother who receives food stamps, and although it isn’t much I do say it beats spending over $50 of your own money for necessities. So, speaking for one of the women of the poor side of the America, cutting these programs will affect many including myself which is why my research stands that Trumps budget cuts will negatively impact our society.
Works Citied
1. Davis, Julie Hirschfeld. "Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts." The New York Times. The New York Times, 22 May 2017. Web. 14 June 2017. <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html>.

2. Bui, Quoctrung, and Susan Chira. "How Trump’s Budget Affects Women." The New York Times. The New York Times, 24 May 2017. Web. 14 June 2017. <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/24/upshot/how-trumps-budget-affects-women.html>.

3. "Federal Revenue: Where Does the Money Come From." National Priorities Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2017. <https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/revenues/>.