Should the Trump administration’s plan to slash 14 percent from the national housing budget come to fruition, people will indeed be “dying on the street,” the head of national advocacy group warned on Thursday, borrowing President Donald Trump’s own words.

Late Wednesday, the Washington Post published an analysis of the draft budget for fiscal year 2018, which included more than $6 billion in cuts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The preliminary budget documents, said to be a proposal put forth by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), now run by fiscal hawk Mick Mulvaney, outlines a plan to shrink the $47 billion dollar agency to $40.5 billion in 2018, which the Post notes would move Trump closer to his goal of slashing “domestic spending by $54 billion to bolster the defense budget.”

According to reporter Jose A. DelReal:

Further: “Under the proposal, direct rental assistance payment—including Section 8 Housing and housing vouchers for homeless veterans—would be cut by at least $300 million, to $19.3 billion. Additionally, housing for the elderly—known as the Section 202 program—would be cut by $42 million, nearly 10 percent. Section 811 housing for people with disabilities would be cut by $29 million, nearly 20 percent. Money available for Native American housing block grants would fall by $150 million, more than 20 percent.”

Outlining how the proposal would impact a nation already facing a drastic affordable housing shortage, National Low Income Housing Coalition president and CEO Diane Yentel issued a statement Thursday declaring the cuts “unconscionable and unacceptable.”

She said:

Others similarly used the president’s own words and promises to blast the draft budget:

In an effort to placate fears about the proposed cuts, the agency’s recently-confirmed head, Dr. Ben Carson, who himself has derided public assistance programs, issued a statement to HUD employees:

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But if HUD staff soon find themselves ‘unsupported,’ they will not be alone as the Trump administration is planning to take an ax to domestic spending in order to shift funds to the military and elsewhere.

On Wednesday it was reported that as much as two-thirds (or $1.4 billion) could be slashed from the budget of the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

And the New York Times, quoting a person familiar with the draft budget request, said Thursday that “the Trump administration is considering deep cuts in the budgets of the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as it looks for money to ratchet up security along the southern border.”