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Joining with protestors nationwide, advocates chanted and shouted Tuesday outside the state Capitol in Hartford to protest against cuts in the Medicaid health insurance program.

Democrats rallied outside the state Capitol in Hartford on Tuesday in a coordinated national  “day of action” aimed at heading off what they say are inevitable cuts to Medicaid as the Trump administration and Republicans move to extend provisions of the 2017 tax cut law.

The White House insists that Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security are off limits, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that $880 billion in spending cuts sought by House Republicans are impossible without deep cuts to the social safety net.

Gov. Ned Lamont joined leading state Democrats for a rally at the State Capitol warning against possible cuts to Medicaid funding.

President Donald Trump has insisted that he does not intend to cut Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security funding. But Democrats argue that cuts are inevitable if Republicans in Washington are serious about fulfilling their campaign promises to drastically reduce federal spending at the same time as they seek to renew sweeping tax cuts from Trump’s first term.

In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.

At 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7, Donald Trump's Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a change in policy that could easily bankrupt some of the program's senior beneficiaries. The agency will now revert back to a more punishing policy that some Republican members of Congress previously publicly opposed - a policy that makes seniors bear the costs of the government's mistakes.