{"id":1051877,"date":"2025-03-06T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051877"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:45:20","slug":"report-trump-and-republicans-will-put-medicaid-and-medicare-on-the-chopping-block-to-fund-their-billionaire-tax-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/report-trump-and-republicans-will-put-medicaid-and-medicare-on-the-chopping-block-to-fund-their-billionaire-tax-handouts\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Trump And Republicans Will Put Medicaid and Medicare on the Chopping Block to Fund Their Billionaire Tax Handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the facts: A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/61235\">new report<\/a> from the Congressional Budget Office shows that Republicans\u2019 reckless tax handout won\u2019t be possible without putting health care for millions of American kids, families, and seniors on the chopping block.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what desperate spin Republicans try to sell to the American people, the reality is they\u2019re laying the groundwork to slash Medicaid and put Medicare on the chopping block to fund Trump\u2019s billionaire tax handouts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/03\/05\/gop-budget-medicaid-cuts\/\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><strong>: GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Jacob Bogage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d on taxes and immigration unless they cut Medicaid or Medicare benefits, lawmakers\u2019 nonpartisan bookkeeper reported Wednesday.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump and the GOP are seeking to extend provisions of the president\u2019s 2017 tax cut law \u2014 which would cost nearly $5 trillion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>More than 60 million Americans rely on each program for medical coverage, retirement security, survivor benefits and unemployment caused by disability. <\/strong>Cutting benefits in any of them could be politically toxic.<strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But the House GOP\u2019s budget, which passed last week in a hairline vote, asks the committee responsible for federal health-care spending to find at least $880 billion in savings over 10 years. <strong>And the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that reducing costs that much won\u2019t be possible without cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program.<\/strong><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That has provoked anxiety among some lawmakers who <strong>represent large numbers of people who rely on Medicaid that cuts to the program that are on the horizon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the facts: A new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that Republicans\u2019 reckless tax handout won\u2019t be possible without putting health care for millions of American kids, families, and seniors on the chopping block.\u00a0 No matter what desperate spin Republicans try to sell to the American people, the reality is they\u2019re laying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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