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What would happen to SNAP if proposed $191 billion cut became law? The president's budget lists four strategies to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $191 billion over 10 years.Are international women’s issues being devalued in US foreign policy? Though preserved in the president's budget, the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues still lacks an appointed leader.Cuts to USDA’s Rural Development Agency are a blow to rural America The Trump administration’s proposed budget eliminates almost all direct loan programs for rural businesses, utilities, and housing.Would six weeks of paid parental leave be a good step forward? The president’s budget includes a proposal to provide working parents six weeks of paid leave after childbirth or adoption.Can Red Nose Day catch on in the United States? Red Nose Day raised $21 million when it launched here in 2015, but the event raised more than five times that amount in the United Kingdom that year.Proposed cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance could increase poverty and may not save the program money President Trump's budget proposal includes a $63 billion cut to disability insurance over the next 10 years.