The Post noted the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that bill could cut off Medicaid benefits for about 10 million people over the next decade.

Trump has voiced support for the American Health Care Act. If the budget affirms his support for the manner in which the bill cuts Medicaid spending, it could not only slash funding for the program in the short term, but give a “foot in the door” to bigger cuts in the future, said Jon Peacock, research director of the Wisconsin Council on Children & Families.

The bill changes Medicaid from a program that uses federal funds to match what states spend on Medicaid to one in which federal Medicaid spending would be capped.

“Once they’ve established the precedent that Congress can cut Medicaid whenever it wants, they’re going to go back to that well on a regular basis,” Peacock said.

The federal government also would spend nearly $250 million less on food stamps for Wisconsin residents each year under Trump’s proposed spending plan, which calls for a 25 percent decrease in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending, according to David Lee, executive director of Feeding Wisconsin, an organization that advocates on behalf of food shelters and oversees a network of pantries in the state.