Democrats have accused Mr Ryan and his supporters of plotting to privatise social security, end Medicare as we know it and slash assistance for the neediest Americans to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
And, crucially, the legislation is a vehicle for massive tax cuts for rich people and corporations, paid for by slashing assistance to poor and middle-class people.
The most recent federal budget signed by President Bush slashed tuition assistance by almost thirteen billion dollars.
BUT if job growth and welfare reform have slashed public assistance caseloads, they have not relieved child poverty to the same degree.
(As Politico noted on Friday, under Price "HHS shortened the Obamacare enrollment period, reduced marketing and outreach, slashed enrollment assistance, cut HealthCare.gov's online hours — and used Twitter, news releases and YouTube videos to discredit the law").
Teachers are being fired, Pell grants for the poor are being slashed, energy assistance for the needy is disappearing, other vital public services shriveling.
His budget slashes assistance programs for the poor in order to financially offset tax cuts for the wealthy.
"The slashing of assistance to Africa is a particularly regressive step," Plan International Australia chief executive Ian Wishart said.
And, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has pointed out, the Paul Ryan Republican budget presented earlier this year proposed slashing nutrition assistance by $127 billion over 10 years.
It's got us to a place where ministers proposing to slash government assistance for sick and disabled people frame their measures as an "incentive", rather than a shove towards destitution.
