{"id":1048676,"date":"2024-10-08T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048676"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:21:20","slug":"trump-vances-project-2025-agenda-put-medicare-and-medicaid-on-the-chopping-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vances-project-2025-agenda-put-medicare-and-medicaid-on-the-chopping-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Vance\u2019s Project 2025 Agenda: Put Medicare and Medicaid on the Chopping Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Donald Trump and JD Vance push an extreme Project 2025 agenda that includes gutting Medicare and Medicaid, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump spent every year of his presidency trying to gut Medicare and Medicaid \u2013 and he\u2019s already made clear his plans for a second term include \u2018cutting\u2019<\/a> these critical benefits for our seniors. The Trump-Vance ticket is pushing an extreme Project 2025 blueprint that would undo the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s efforts to lower prescription drug costs for seniors while putting Medicare and Medicaid on the chopping block. While Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are focused on expanding Medicare for our seniors, Trump and JD Vance will leave millions of Americans high and dry as they push a dangerous, out of touch, and unpopular Project 2025 agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has floated cuts to crucial programs like Medicare and Medicaid after years of railing against and threatening them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Kernen, CNBC<\/a>: \u201cHave you changed your outlook on how to handle entitlements, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cSo first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump Floats \u2018Cutting\u2019 Spending On Entitlements Like Social Security And Medicare\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Floats Cuts to Social Security and Medicare\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump now says he\u2019s open to entitlement cuts, including Medicare\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a>: \u201cDuring a Fox News town hall, President Donald Trump promised to cut entitlements like Medicare and Social Security if he were to win a second term.<\/strong> \u2026 \u2018But if you don\u2019t cut something in entitlements, you will never really deal with the debt,\u2019 town hall co-moderator Martha MacCallum interjected, alluding to social safety programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. \u2018Oh, we\u2019ll be cutting,\u2019 Trump rushed to confirm.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump has made clear that his goal remains to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including its expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults, and to impose rigid caps on the federal government\u2019s Medicaid spending.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in every single one of his budgets as president, left children uninsured when he cracked down on Medicaid, and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cHis avowed stance, however, is at odds with Trump\u2019s own record as president: Each of his White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump said he wouldn\u2019t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/a> and 2020<\/a>: Trump proposed budgets that included hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his FY18<\/a>, FY19<\/a>, FY20<\/a>, and FY21<\/a> budgets, Trump repeatedly proposed hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump Administration Cracked Down on Medicaid. Kids Lost Insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles Times<\/a>: \u201cRebuffed by the courts in its previous efforts to gut Medicaid, the Trump administration teed up a new, far-reaching attack on the program that could affect the health of millions of low-income Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration said on Thursday that it would allow states to cap Medicaid spending for many poor adults, a major shift long sought by conservatives that gives states the option of reducing health benefits for millions who gained coverage through the program under the Affordable Care Act.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTrump administration to withhold Medicaid funding from California over abortion insurance requirement\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance has railed against Medicare and other entitlement programs that Americans depend on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201c[Social Security and Medicare] are the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cThe way forward is as obvious as it is politically difficult: \u2026 reform current entitlements and avoid enacting new ones.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to, frankly, stop spending so much on welfare benefits and start having a lot more workers who are paying into the system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025 \u2014 an \u201cundeniably\u201d Trump-driven operation \u2014 includes plans to accelerate efforts to privatize Medicare, cut Medicaid benefits, and repeal provisions in President Biden\u2019s Inflation Reduction Act that allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025<\/a>: \u201cAdd work requirements and match Medicaid benefits to beneficiary needs. Because Medicaid serves a broad and diverse group of individuals, it should be flexible enough to accommodate different designs for different groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025<\/a>: \u201cThis \u2018negotiation\u2019 program should be repealed<\/strong>, and reforms in Part D that will have meaningful impact for seniors should be pursued\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn addition, intermediate tax reform should repeal all tax increases that were passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, including the book minimum tax, the stock buyback excise tax, the coal excise tax, the reinstated Superfund tax, and excise taxes on drug manufacturers to compel them to comply with Medicare price controls.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare \u2014 And Fast\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuch a policy would hasten the end of the traditional Medicare program, as well as its foundational premise: that seniors can go to any doctor or provider they choose. The change would be a boon for private health insurers <\/strong>\u2014 which generate massive profits and growing portions of their revenues from Medicare Advantage plans \u2014 and further consolidate corporate control over the United States health care system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would not likely benefit seniors, since the private plans limit the doctors they can see and often wrongfully deny patients\u2019 care. Because the plans are costly, experts say the GOP proposal could threaten the Medicare program\u2019s solvency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThis is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong> The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee \u2014 one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer \u2014 is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Week<\/a>: \u201cMany of Trump\u2019s indicated plans for a second term fall in line with the Project 2025 outline.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRoberts told me that he views Heritage\u2019s role today as \u2018institutionalizing Trumpism.\u2019 <\/strong>This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump\u2019s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that \u2018the Trump administration \u2026 simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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