Democrats Warn Trump Against Proposed Change to Poverty Measure
- 43 Democrats say Trump wants to shrink services for the poor
- OMB suggested in May using new measure for poverty threshold
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Senate Democrats -- including a half-dozen presidential candidates -- are warning President Donald Trump that a proposal to change the way the government determines the national poverty threshold would “undermine the economic security of our country’s most at-risk citizens.”
In a letter sent Tuesday, a group of 43 senators accuse the Trump administration of “looking for ways to shrink the services” accessible to the nation’s poorest citizens.