"There's only one place you can go, and that's Medicaid. That's where the money is," said Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho), who sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
"There's others, don't get me wrong, but if you're gonna get to $900 billion, something has to be reformed on the Medicaid front."
The American people can stop Trump and the GOP, but only if they wise up and speak up very loudly in protest:
Before the 2024 election, Aaron Zitner, Jon Kamp, and Brian McGill of the Wall Street Journal noted that by 2022, 53% of the counties in the U.S. received at least a quarter of their income from government programs"primarily through Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Those counties heavily support Republicans, including Trump.heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On Friday the Republican-dominated House Budget Committee presented its budget proposal to the House. It calls for adding $4.5 trillion to the budget deficit in order to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It also calls for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, including cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and supplemental nutrition programs. Budget Committee chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) said: "The era of wasteful, woke, and weaponized government is over."
For forty years, Republican politicians could win elections by insisting that government spending redistributed wealth from hardworking taxpayers to the undeserving because they did not entirely purge the federal programs that their own voters liked. Now Trump, Musk, and the Republicans are purging funds for cancer research, family farms, national parks, food, nuclear security, and medical care"all programs his supporters care about"and threatening to throw the country into an economic tailspin that will badly hurt Republican-dominated states.
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