Republican Mark Alford Just Says Flat Out They'll Cut Medicare
Source: The New Republic
Republican Just Says Flat Out They’ll Cut Medicare
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Tue, March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM EDT 3 min read
Just two weeks after insisting that Donald Trump’s budget resolution wouldn’t touch entitlement programs, Republicans have opted to completely give up the game on slashing Medicare and Medicaid.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Elon Musk used lies and deceit to try to convince the American public that they should hack the popular social programs—along with food stamps, Social Security, and unemployment—by hundreds of billions of dollars. By Tuesday, Republican lawmakers had already fallen in line.
“If he moves to largely eliminate entitlement programs, are you OK with it?” pressed CNN’s Kate Bolduan.
“I think when he talks about elimination, we’re talking about waste, abuse, and fraud, and it is true that the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up about 75 percent of our budget. It’s mandatory spending,” Missouri Representative Mark Alford said. “We’ve got to find the savings there. We will do that.”
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JohnSJ
(98,082 posts)spooky3
(37,166 posts)kimbutgar
(24,508 posts)Curtail and destroy Medicare ? Will the idiots finally get “woke” and realize they have been screwed over by the orange Hitler and his Rasputin 🐀?
Moostache
(10,367 posts)1) Social Security contribution caps? GONE. Sliding scale all the way up the wealth scale (NO LONGER JUST INCOME)
2) Taxes cut? EVERY cut to a program is to be offset with a corresponding RAISE of taxes on wealth. If you're SOOOOOOOO concerned about debt, put your money where your tax cuts are and AFTER that we can revisit taxes when the debt is eliminated...
3) We're not ALL stupid, inbred, mouth-breathing Fox News addicts...you are a lying disgrace with no self-worth and should be scorned and mocked for the rest of your earthly existence, THEN you should be sent to the 7th circle of Hell, where I hope they make you participate in TRANS-partner hot yoga stretching for 23 and 1/2 hours a day.
Wiz Imp
(4,189 posts)We'll have to lie and call the savings "waste, fraud & abuse" even though there is very little fraud and abuse in these programs. But it needs to be done. They are all a giant waste anyway - why should the government be helping people who need help? or paying back the money people paid into SS to be there for their retirement? Cutting taxes for billionaires is much more important.
Skittles
(162,479 posts)they should be looking at MEDICARE "ADVANTAGE"
milestogo
(19,841 posts)And that savings will go right into the pockets of the rich.