Catholic Charities USA Troubled by President's Budget Impact on Nation's Poor and Vulnerable
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Catholic Charities USA, which represents one of the nation’s largest private networks of social service providers, today voiced its concern over proposed cuts to critical health and social service programs contained in the president’s fiscal 2007 budget.
“A troubling pattern of cutting programs that support our nation’s most poor and vulnerable continues,” said Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA. “Instead of proposing a budget that would protect funding for critical services that help millions of seniors, the disabled, families, and others struggling to achieve stability and self-sufficiency, the president has sent to Congress a plan that threatens an already fragile safety net.”
The president’s proposed budget comes just days after the U.S. House of Representatives approved the 2006 federal budget, which contains drastic cuts and changes to programs such as Medicaid, child support enforcement, child welfare, and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
The new $2.77 trillion fiscal 2007 budget proposal released yesterday contains numerous cuts and changes to vital health and social service programs. According to Catholic Charities USA analysis,
