So like, President Donald Trump was all, “Hey guys, we’re not messing with Social Security and Medicaid in the new budget bill the GOP is working on.” He said this during a town hall hosted by NewsNation on Tuesday night. The House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans, already approved a $2 trillion spending cut, but they didn’t touch Social Security. However, they did leave the door open for cutting Medicaid. On the other side, Senate Republicans are only proposing $4 billion in cuts, way less than what the House wanted. Some GOP senators are also not so sure about cutting Medicaid, so it’s like they might have a little fight within the party.
Trump was all like, “We’re not doing anything with entitlements, trust me.” He also said he didn’t do anything to hurt entitlements during his time in office. But he did mention that he’s cool with making sure programs like Medicaid are run properly without any waste or fraud. He even talked about how there are some people getting Medicaid who shouldn’t be getting it, like illegal immigrants. But he made it clear that he’s not gonna mess with Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Nope, not at all.
The Republicans are using a special process to get their budget passed without any issues, and they wanna get everything sorted out by Memorial Day. But they gotta figure out where they’re gonna cut funding to pay for all the tax cuts they wanna give out. Some Republicans are saying, “Look, we need to reform Medicaid or else we’re gonna have to raise taxes.” On the other hand, some centrist Republicans are telling Speaker Mike Johnson that they won’t support any budget that cuts Medicaid too deep.
Overall, it seems like the GOP is trying to balance things out between making cuts and keeping important programs intact. But who knows what’s gonna happen in the end, right? Politics can be so unpredictable sometimes.
