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Ryan Roundup 2014: Everything You Need to Know About Chairman Ryan's Latest Budget

We’ve compiled CBPP’s analyses and blog posts on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget.  We’ll update this roundup as we issue additional analyses.

  • Analysis: Ryan Block Grant Proposal Would Cut Medicaid by More Than One-Quarter by 2024 and More After That
    April 4, 2014
    “The Medicaid block grant proposal in the budget plan proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on April 1 would cut federal Medicaid (and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP) funding by 26 percent by 2024, because the funding would no longer keep pace with health care costs or with expected Medicaid enrollment growth as the population ages….  These cuts would come on top of repealing the health reform law’s Medicaid expansion.”

    Blog Post: Ryan Budget Again Proposes a Medicaid Block Grant, Adding Millions to the Ranks of the Uninsured and Underinsured
  • Blog Post: Ryan Budget Mischaracterizes Housing Vouchers, Then Sets the Stage to Cut Them
    April 4, 2014
    “House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan used a faulty number to argue that ‘Section 8’ Housing Choice Voucher program costs have risen excessively.  His budget documents also float a proposed expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration that could lay the groundwork for deep, harmful cuts in the voucher program in years to come.  That program, which helps 2.1 million low-income families rent modest units of their choice in the private market, is just beginning to recover from the loss of 70,000 vouchers due to sequestration budget cuts last year.”
  • Analysis: Ryan Budget Would Slash SNAP by $137 Billion Over Ten Years: Low-Income Households in All States Would Feel Sharp Effects
    April 4, 2014
    “House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget plan includes cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) of $137 billion — 18 percent — over the next ten years (2015-2024),  which would necessitate ending food assistance for millions of low-income families, cutting benefits for millions of such households, or some combination of the two.  Chairman Ryan proposed similarly deep SNAP cuts in each of his last three budgets.”

    Blog Post: Ryan’s SNAP Cuts Would Hit Millions of Low-Income Americans
  • Analysis: Medicare in Ryan's 2015 Budget
    April 8, 2014
    “The Medicare proposals in the 2015 budget resolution from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) are much the same as those in Ryan’s previous budgets. Once again, Chairman Ryan proposes to replace Medicare’s guarantee of health coverage with a premium-support voucher and raise the age of eligibility for Medicare from 65 to 67. Together, these changes would shift costs to Medicare beneficiaries and (with the simultaneous repeal of health reform) leave many 65- and 66-year-olds without health coverage.”

    Blog Post: Ryan’s Medicare Proposals: the Latest
  • Analysis: Ryan Plan Gets 69 Percent of Its Budget Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes
    April 8, 2014
    “House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget cuts $3.3 trillion over ten years (2015-2024) from programs that serve people of limited means. That’s 69 percent of its $4.8 trillion in total non-defense budget cuts. Not much has changed on this front from Chairman Ryan’s budget plan of a year ago, or the year before that. Then, too, Chairman Ryan proposed very deep cuts, the bulk of which were in programs that serve low- and moderate-income Americans.

    The deficit reduction plan that Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson issued in late 2010 established as a basic principle that deficit reduction should not increase poverty or widen inequality. The Ryan plan charts a radically different course, imposing its most severe cuts on people on the lower rungs of the income ladder.”

    Blog Post: Ryan Budget Gets 69 Percent of Its Cuts From Low-Income Programs [Updated]
  • Blog Post: Obama, Ryan Miles Apart on Non-Defense Discretionary Funding
    April 8, 2014
    “One especially stark difference between the recent budgets from President Obama and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is in non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding, the budget category that includes key investments in the economy, such as education and basic research; support for low-income families, such as Head Start and housing assistance; and essential services that Americans expect, such as veterans’ medical care and food safety inspections.  Obama and Ryan are roughly $1 trillion apart on total NDD funding over the next decade.”
  • Blog Post: Ryan Budget a Path to Adversity for Millions — and Maybe for the Economy Too
    April 9, 2014
    In his latest US News & World Report post, CBPP Chief Economist Chad Stone reprises analysis showing that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” budget is, in fact, as CBPP President Robert Greenstein described it, a path to adversity for tens of millions of Americans.  He then discusses why it also could be a path to adversity for the economy as a whole.
  • Blog Post: Chairman Ryan’s Response to the Center’s Analysis Doesn’t Hold Water
    April 10, 2014
    “House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan took exception to our finding that 69 percent of the non-defense spending cuts in his new budget come from programs for people with low and moderate incomes.  But he makes no attempt to refute our calculations, and his response both defies logic and conflicts with his own budget and even his own words.”
  • Blog Post: Chairman Ryan’s Obfuscation: Part 2
    April 10, 2014
    “In his attempt to deflect our finding that 69 percent of his budget cuts come from programs targeted on Americans of limited means, Ryan says that Medicaid would receive over $3 trillion during the coming decade under his budget and that its costs would grow in all years after 2016.  [This blog post explains] what his too-clever-by-half response conceals.”
  • Statement: Robert Greenstein, President, On the House Passage of Chairman Ryan's Budget Plan
    April 11, 2014
    “House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” budget, which the House has now passed, is anything but that for most families and individuals.  Affluent Americans would do quite well, but for tens of millions of others, the Ryan plan — which gets 69 percent of its cuts from programs that serve people of limited means — is a path to more adversity.”