(Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal for 2018 calls for massive spending cuts in social safety net programs and medical research. Dubbed “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” the Trump budget would cut within the course of the next decade $800 billion from Medicaid, $272 billion from welfare programs overall, and $192 billion from nutrition assistance programs, according to a report by The New York Times.