Trump's budget calls for 20% cut to HHS and yet another attack on Obamacare

US President Donald Trump has issued a borrowing-heavy budget proposal which would allocate just $68.4 billion to Department of Health and Human Services, a fifth lower than what the agency received last year.

Mr Trump has also used the list of budget requests to issue another rallying cry against Obamacare, in a bid to rekindle last year’s doomed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

This would be achieved in part by slashing a quarter of a billion dollars from Medicare by rolling back Obama-era expansions, contrary to the president’s campaign trail promise that he would not cut the program.