Donald Trump's budget mastermind is taking aim at the workshy and telling them: 'Get a job.'

Mick Mulvaney unveiled an ambitious federal budget Tuesday that slashes programs that benefit the poor to get government spending back on track and reduce the federal deficit.

But it is likely to be his blunt message which cuts through.

'If you're on food stamps and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work,'

Trump's plan, 'A New Foundation for American Greatness,' aims to balances the federal budget over 10 years through massive cuts to Medicaid and welfare programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Cuts will also create room for Trump's proposed spending on the border, infrastructure and a paid family leave program. Medicare and Social Security are also kept intact. Mulvaney told reporters during a Monday briefing. 'We need everyone pulling in the same direction.'

Office of Management and Budget head Mick Mulvaney previewed the president's fiscal year 2018 plan to reporters at on Monday at the White House while Trump was abroad.

President Donald Trump will unveil an ambitious federal budget Tuesday that slashes programs that benefit the poor to get government spending back on track and reduce the federal deficit

The Office of Management and Budget head previewed the president's fiscal year 2018 plan to reporters at on Monday at the White House while Trump was abroad.

Although a full accounting of the cuts Trump wants to make won't be available until late Tuesday morning, Mulvaney confirmed a reported $800 billion hit to Medicaid and a restructuring of SNAP that shifts more of the costs onto the states whose residents are using it.

The administration is trying to motivate states to right-size their welfare rolls by forcing them to take on more of the burden.

'I believe in the social safety net,' Mulvaney told reporters, responding to liberal complaints that their Republican president's budget is hardhearted. 'What we've done is not to try to remove the safety net for folks who need it, but to try and figure out if there's folks who don't need it.'

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Other programs that will see major hits include disability programs, retirement benefits for federal employees and farm bill subsidies.

'This Administration will restore fiscal discipline and make the hard decisions to put our country on a path to repay the debt in full,' a document passed out by the White House said.

The U.S. is $20 trillion in debt. That's $60,000 a person, Mulvaney contended on Monday.

If Trump's plan were accepted wholesale, the administration figures that the U.S. will be able to repay its debt 'within a few decades.'

That's also assuming that the economy reaches the sustained 3 percent GDP growth the administration has been touting.

The budget assumes that the repeal of Obamacare will save $250 billion. Reforms to the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program will shave off another $616 billion.

Cuts to the welfare system will save $272 billion. Much of that, $193 billion, will come from SNAP. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, TANF, will generate another $21 billion in savings.

'We are going to measure compassion and success by the number of people we help get off of those programs and get back in charge of their own lives. We are not going to measure our success by how much money we spend, but by how many people we actually help,' Mulvaney said Monday.

Reforms to the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit will save another $40 billion, a document provided to reporters by the White House said.

A primary reform the administration is pushing is the use of Social Security numbers to determine eligibility for the earned income credit. That will prevent government money from going to illegal immigrants whose children are U.S. citizens.

Mulvaney argued Monday that the government spends extensive amounts on programs that benefit those children and it's 'not unreasonable' for the administration to say the EITC should only be benefiting American families.

To ask a middle income family in America to pay for those subsidies, 'that's just not fair. It's not right,' Mulvaney said.

A slash to spending on the federal student loan programs will whack another $143 billion off the deficit.

The White House says it will streamline student loan repayment plans into one programs that caps monthly payments at 12.5 percent and forgives debt for undergraduate students after 15 years.

The administration also assumes it will save $142 billion by tightening its own belt and reducing the number of improper payments across the government.

In keeping with the budget blueprint Trump put out in March, the president is also asking for a reduction or end in direct funding to international programs with missions that Trump does not believe are vital to the United States' foreign policy interests.

Although a full accounting of the cuts Trump wants to make won't be available until late Tuesday morning, Mulvaney confirmed that a reported $800 billion hit to Medicaid and a restructuring of SNAP that shifts more of the costs onto the states whose residents are using it

Defense spending is set at $639 billion in a reversal of the sequester that the White House says lays will lay 'the groundwork for an ambitious defense reform agenda.'

That's includes the $54 billion that Trump previously requested when he put out his skinny budget that dealt solely with discretionary spending

As previously reported, Trump wants $44.1 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, as well. He's asking for $2.6 billion for his wall with Mexico and border security in fiscal year 2018, $1.6 billion of which is intended for the wall, and $300 million to hire additional Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs agents.

Trump is also proposing to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure through a combination of federal funding, incentived investments and expedited projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Six weeks of paid family leave for new mothers and fathers, including parents who adopt, is also included. The budgets uses the unemployment system for states to establish individual programs that Trump's administration has committed to giving $25 billion.

Trump's budgets also proposes to help kids pay for and finish college faster through year-round Pell Grants.

The president's budget is traditionally a starting point for discussions that never passes as written.

Mulvaney acknowledged Monday that the White House was proposing one because it's legally required to and because it wanted to send a 'certain message' on behalf of the president about his priorities, particularly about spending and the deficit.

'If Congress has a different way to get to that end point, God bless 'em,' Mulvaney told reporters. 'That's great, and that will be part of my testimony to both the House and the Senate this week.'