Of course changes to Medicaid will affect the poor. Only the poor are eligible to receive Medicaid. Cuts to the NEA will affect the arts; cuts to HUD will affect those receiving government housing; cuts to the CFPB will hurt . . . people who like British period dramas (?).

Why don't you just say what you mean? The only government programs that that the Catholic left is fine with cutting are defense programs. If Republicans even mentions cutting anything else, they will vilified, even by the bishops, as anti-poor, anti-elderly, anti-child, not pro-life, and un-Christian.