Summary
House Republicans cannot meet their budget target without major cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Their budget plan requires $880 billion in cuts, but with Medicare excluded, Medicaid makes up 93% of the available funds.
This puts Republicans in a bind between conservative hard-liners demanding cuts and moderates opposing reductions to essential health programs.
While Trump claims Medicaid will be untouched, Speaker Mike Johnson argues it has excessive fraud.
That was always the goal. This is how they sell it to aging boomers and rural voters depending on those programs.
How about instead of stripping all taxes from the rich we, y"know, fucken tax them?
The rich are setting the fucking taxes now. The good ending for them is no taxes
I like them sliced and in a head basket. Tyvm
Only consequential fraud is by medical corporations overcharging or scamming. Only going to get worse as they fire the auditors.
I mean if Republicans really wanted to root out fraud they have a resident expert with first hand knowledge.
Like the IRS, increasing funding to auditing services nets more savings than the input costs.
These people don’t understand long term thinking. Cutting Medicaid will stop the poorest Americans from getting preventative care. This will massively increase the cost to the country when they have to go to the emergency room to try to save their life later on. Our taxes will pay those exorbitant bills.
I read that for every dollar in funding, the IRS brings in five dollars. But it’s long term, so it’s impossible for these fuckers to comprehend.
Bear in mind that the current administration is just as likely to permit hospitals to refuse treatment to the uninsured. Then they can just die and the hospital doesn’t have to worry about pushing the costs of their treatment onto other peoples’ insurance by raising prices.
But if poor white Americans die they don’t make more poor white Americans to support fascism and die in war.
You’re probably right though.
If republicans want to root out fraud … as is often said “suicide is always an option”. That’d be the best way to both drain the swamp and root out corruption by republicans lol
Man I can only hope that if we even survive just one year of this lunacy, that we’ve smartened up by 2026 to get a majority of these clowns out. That’s our honest and best chance right now.
You still think there would actually be real midterms, or even midterms at all, by now?
Don’t capitulate in advance.
It’s Russian style elections from here on out, where the numbers are made up and the votes don’t matter.
And by here on out you mean since last November right ? The numbers don’t mean anything for a while now
No shit? Glad it’s “official,” I guess, but literally anyone left with basic arithmetic skills and common sense knew that gutting fed workers wasn’t going to even remotely be enough to make up $2 trillion. So many analysts had said as much all summer long when DOGE started being floated.
Not to mention the obviously rushed and dumbass way they’re just wholesale firing is absolutely going to have hidden costs resulting from those agencies trying to make up for suddenly not having the ability to… do what they’re supposed to.
I can save a lot of money now by never changing the oil in my car but later Im gonna pay out the ass cause I’m gonna have to pay to replace the whole engine because of it.
Dinglesmurf just fires people, and see’s what happens. And then re-hires when stuff clearly goes to shit.
That’s musk approach to everything. Even SpaceX.
Remove it, and see if it works without it. Consequences be damned.
Of course that doesn’t take into account long term affects as you pointed out. It’s idiotic and irresponsible.
With the FAA now gutted/gone. He’s in the clear to do what he pleases. People will get hurt.
Yes they fucking can. They always could.
Imagine you run a business that takes a big job from some incorporated businesses. Now imagine at the end you find out you operated at a loss. Now imagine you agree to keep doing that job every fucking year WHILE TAKING EVEN LESS MONEY FOR DECADES.
If the GOP wants to run the government like a business then they need to start charging the rich their share of taxes.
Sounds like they’re about to find some cost savings in the budget office.
CBO about to get fired
That was the point.
Lies boosted by corporate news sewers.
