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After a two-year run that culminated with a 2014 triumph, Gov. Charlie Baker has already turned the legislature into his own personal fiefdom, cutting the state budget and overhauling its budget procedures in the last year. The budget-writing governor is seeking a deal with Democrats and would like to end a three-year “living allowance” for the working poor, a measure that would give some benefits to wealthier residents.

Under the current structure, the state’s poor receive annual payments of up to $17,660 for food stamps and housing subsidies — a fraction of the $45,744 the average person in Massachusetts can get under federal government-subsidized programs in a two-year period. Under the governor’s plan, the state could cut those benefits by at least $20 billion.

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