Friday, April 03, 2026

Trump: No Money for Medicare Because We Have to Fight Wars

Trump urged states to fund benefits programs instead because "we have to take care of one thing: military protection."

Posted by lee_the_agent at 11:30 AM | 30 COMMENTS | permalink

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Trump is right, we can either pay for "daycare, Medicaid, Medicare all these things," or we can pay for more war. Every dollar we spend on this illegal war of choice, is a dollar that could have helped improve life right here at home. He's telling us what he cares about more.

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-- Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) Apr 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM

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... while the federal government focuses on military spending. ...

... and also focusing upon giving multi-trillion tax cuts to the wealthy ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-02 01:39 PM

I'm so glad I'm getting the f*&^ out of here.

This country is nothing like the one I grew up in and it's nothing close to the one that I would want my sons to grow up in.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-02 01:43 PM

"We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it too. They should pay. They'll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up," Trump said. "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can't do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.

"I can't get a ballroom approved. It's pretty amazing, right?" Trump also said in the speech. "If I was a king, we'd be doing a lot more. I'm doing a lot, but I could be doing a lot more if I was a king."

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#3 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-04-02 01:52 PM

There is always money for war.

Never for anything that help Americans.

This nation is ------.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-02 01:59 PM

"It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis.

But that fat bag of transfats will keep the 2.9% medicare payroll tax though.

-------.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-02 02:00 PM

There is always money for war.

And illegal immigrants.

This nation is ------.

Clearly, you haven't been paying attention. I reckon you had BidenBlinders on.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-04-02 02:07 PM

@# ... "I can't get a ballroom approved. It's pretty amazing, right?" ...

What is amazing to me about the ballroom fiasco is that Pres Trump apparently knew it would not be approved, so he just went ahead and tore down the East Wing of the White House so that there were few alternatives to what he wanted to do.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-02 02:12 PM

#6 | Posted by oneironaut

STFU idiot. Go step in front of a bus.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-02 02:14 PM

Trash it first then ---- on the Rubble.

At least he has to live with the Mess now.

He may have to rebuild it the way it was.

That's Humiliating for a Bounder to have to do.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-04-02 02:16 PM

#8

He's certainly no going to be stepping in front of any tanks in Tiananmen Square.

He's more of a fair weather Chinaman.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-04-02 02:33 PM

Trump, after his presidency is over

#11 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-02 03:16 PM

Americans already don't have universal healthcare-- as enjoyed by the residents of Germany, Israel, Canada, Greenland, Taiwan, and tiny Albania-- and now the little help that we do get-- funded with our own tax dollars-- will disappear to fight this war on behalf of wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel.

AIPAC-recipient political candidates and incumbents better start looking over their shoulders this year for giving us what Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu has craved for 25 years: Operation AIPAC Fury.

Source: Thanks for everything, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham, Hakeem Jeffries, Miriam Adelson, John Fetterman

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-02 09:39 PM

Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do ...

Life's a ball
If only you know it
Yeah it's all just waiting for you
Ah you're alive,
So come on and show it
We got a lot of livin'
Such a lot of livin'
... Tonight's the night we're gonna fly
Let's kick this hick town in the hide
... I want a taste of everything
Let's live it up and really swing
... Got a lot of living living living to do
... Live!

#13 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-02 09:40 PM

focusing upon giving multi-trillion tax cuts to the wealthy ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-02 01:39 PM | Reply | F

The big bulls**t bill adds $3 trillion in debt over 10 years for cuts to the top 1%. Who buys those bonds? The 1%. So now workers are paying the 1% interest on the debt created by cutting taxes on the 1%.

#14 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-03 11:35 AM

Yet another campaign ad for the Dems against every GOP candidate in the mid-term elections. GOPers from sea to shining sea will be running away from this proposed budget like rats from a sinking ship. No mail-in ballots, cuts to Medicare and the continuation of an expensive foreign war of choice, all from an 80-year old president who is showing his age with every movement, breath and utterance. If there are free, open and fair elections this fall (a BIG if) the GOP will be spanked in a manner never seen before in this country...

#15 | Posted by catdog at 2026-04-03 12:06 PM

What Trumpy apparently does not or cannot understand.. National Defense and Security actually includes keeping your population healthy. What's the ourpose of building a wall and an invincible military when your people behind that wall and under the protection of that military are reduced to the struggling poor and are sick and starving.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-04-03 12:50 PM

**** Virginia: Ten Hospitals May Close Because of GOP and Dummkopf Trumpf Budget Cuts ****

Virginia hospitals at risk of closure:

Bon Secours Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (Emporia, Va.)
Buchanan General Hospital (Grundy, Va.)
Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital (Tazewell, Va.)
Dickenson Community Hospital (Clintwood, Va.)
Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital (South Boston, Va.)
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (Woodbridge, Va.)
Southside Community Hospital (Farmville, Va.)
Twin County Regional Hospital (Galax, Va.)
VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital (South Hill, Va.)
VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital (Tappahannock, Va.)

Source: www.warner.senate.gov

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-04 02:51 AM

Translation: America is in thrall to Israeli interests, and this Iranian war is really Netanyahu's and AIPAC's war. You don't count if you need help as a senior, as a veteran, as a poor American.

#18 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-04-04 06:58 AM

"I'm so glad I'm getting the f*&^ out of here."

Where ya off to?

#19 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-04-04 08:48 AM

Does this mean I don't have to pay FICA taxes anymore?

#20 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-04-04 08:49 AM

Does this mean I don't have to pay FICA taxes anymore?

#21 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-04-04 08:50 AM

"... and also focusing upon giving multi-trillion tax cuts to the wealthy ..."

I've been saying it for a long time...the US needs to implement a VAT. Like every other western country.

The only way you can avoid a VAT is by not buying things that have a VAT.

#22 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-04-04 08:52 AM

Of course Trump can't afford anything EXCEPT that which makes him richer or more dictatorial or gives him more "toys" to bomb countries that bother him.

#23 | Posted by Augustine at 2026-04-04 10:53 AM

Don't move! Vote and help to get others to vote out of office anyone who supports Trump's authoritarianism. America was great for 100 years BEFORE Trump. The way to make America "great" again is to stop "Trumpism" through genuine democracy.

Let's get it rolling!

Make NATO great again. Stop Putin. Stop Trump.

#24 | Posted by Augustine at 2026-04-04 10:59 AM

"... and also focusing upon giving multi-trillion tax cuts to the wealthy ..."

I've been saying it for a long time...the US needs to implement a VAT. Like every other western country.
#22 | Posted by madbomber

How does that address anything?

A VAT is a regressive tax just like the Sales Tax.

Do you mean the regressive VAT should fund regressive tax cuts for the rich? At least you have math on your side, if that's what you're saying.

Otherwise you're speaking nonsense.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-04 01:30 PM

Tell me more about our "Best healthcare in the world.".

#26 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-04 02:58 PM

Tell me more about our "Best healthcare in the world.".

C'est Magnifique!

#27 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-04-04 03:07 PM

I cannot believe that any POTUS was stupid enough and out of touch enough with the American people to say we need to cut Medicare and childcare spending to spend many tens of tens of billions of dollars on the elective war he started last month. WTF was he thinking? He wants to be removed from office?

#28 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-04-04 03:13 PM

The best healthcare in the world exists in democratic socialist countries that use their tax dollars to take care of their citizens, instead of only using taxes to benefit the wealthiest members of society and to bolster their military.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-04 03:55 PM

"Do you mean the regressive VAT should fund regressive tax cuts for the rich? At least you have math on your side, if that's what you're saying."

I mean that a VAT taxes things that people want. And people always want things.

Tax on income can be avoided. It's basically voluntary.

Why do you think every other western country has a VAT?

#30 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-04-05 05:13 AM

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