Trump’s New Budget Plan Guts Medicaid. Here’s What You Need to Know

The Trump Administration's 2018 budget request, unveiled Tuesday, includes deep cuts to Medicaid, the insurance program for low income, elderly, and disabled Americans. Medicaid covers nearly one in four Americans and accounts for $1 out of every $6 spent on healthcare in the country.

The budget outline assumes that the American Health Care Act, the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act, will take effect in its current form.