To spike up the crime rate so they could have an excuse for all his drug war bullshit, just a shot in the dark. All of those people who desperately needed support and a lot not even capable of taking care of themselves suddenly out in the cold. Evil though and through with a big dumb smile on it's face. Oh, those people can then be transferred into private for profit prisons. The Republicans have been about shitting on those most vulnerable as long as I have been alive, and probably longer, so I honestly have no idea how they became the party of God. They're all a bunch of heretics if they truly believe that.