President Submits FY 2011 Budget Proposal with FMAP Extension, No Medicaid Cuts, and Freeze on Domestic Programs

President Obama submitted a $3.8 trillion budget request to Congress on Monday, while taking in $2.6 trillion in revenues in FY 2011.The budget submission kicks off the annual appropriations' processes in the House and Senate. The budget request includes for the first time federal spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as federal spending to cover the adjusted minimum tax. The administration's proposal includes $25.5 billion for a six month extension to the Recovery Act's federal FMAP funding to help cash-strapped states with their Medicaid budgets. No cuts to Medicaid are included in his budget.

The president will request $561 million in the 2011 budget, an 80 percent increase in discretionary funds to support identification of prevention, and enforcement of Medicaid and Medicare programs. The budget includes cuts in some discretionary spending as well as elimination or consolidation of some federal programs (e.g. VR programs, HUD programs) beginning in FY 2011. The proposal includes about $100 billion worth of policies intended to help create more jobs this year. ANCOR will provide a detailed analysis on its website and in WICs Live early next week.