45% cut in foreign aid, and 43% in housing programs: Republicans propose their OWN budget

House Republicans have begun working on their own budget proposal in an effort to eliminate “wasteful” and “wakeful” spending — with a budget from a key adviser proposing a 30 percent cut in the health department’s programs.

President Joe Biden unveils his own budget plan Thursday in Philadelphia. He has hammered Republicans on Social Security and Medicare, and has gotten public pledges from top Republicans not to cut the popular programs.

That leaves other “discretionary” programs on the chopping block, with some of the conservative Republicans who enabled Kevin McCarthy’s speakership vowing to continue with politically painful cuts if necessary.

The Biden White House has hit Republicans for huddling with former Trump budget official Russell Vought, and Vought confirmed to the New York Times he advises them on cuts to an “awakened and armed government.”

The push comes weeks after House Republicans announced their plans to scrap “woke waste.”

‘I’m not saying you can balance on discretion [spending] alone,’ he said. “But a food stamp program for work requirements is a lot easier to sell than premium support,” he said, speaking of a plan to make Medicare recipients pay more.

Vought’s Center for Renewing America has cataloged some of the cuts that could form the basis of a GOP budget plan that the Budget panel must approve and the House approve by a majority vote.

One of the proposed cuts is to cut $37 billion, or 29 percent, from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The department “is a major purveyor of radical gender theories in the medical field, adding Critical Race Theory (CRT) under the guise of ‘health equity’ as part of its research emphasis,” said the group, which picks up CRT, which is a target been for Republicans, including Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The group denounces HHS for “promulgating” so-called “gain of function” research, calling the agency a supporter of the “abortion industry and the transgender medical agenda.”

Other cuts in the scheme include a 45 percent cut in foreign aid, the imposition of job requirements on Medicaid and food stamp recipients, along with a knife cut on the FBI’s counterintelligence budget.

That area should be cut by 50 percent, with a 43 percent cut in housing programs.

Biden has also accused Republicans of planning cuts to Medicaid services for the poor.

Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott fired back at Biden in an interview with DailyMail.com last week.

“First of all, the president is a liar,” he said. He said Biden has signed a bill that “cuts” $280 billion from Medicare — in reference to provisions that allow the government to negotiate directly with drug companies. The provision was a revenue booster, but it did not cut programs.

“When he was in the Senate, he proposed scrapping Medicare, Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, everything. So this man is a hypocrite,’ he said.

“What we need to focus on is, how does the American public get them into a position where they’re financially able to get the health care themselves,” he said.

When asked if that meant cutting back on Medicaid, he replied, “Well look, can people get jobs? The federal government is not there to give anyone benefits forever [but to] create an economy where people can live on their own. Look, I grew up in public housing, I didn’t wake up every day, so to speak, I hope I can get back into public housing. I want to be independent.’