Republicans can't meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says
Republicans can't meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says
The House GOP has ordered the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid funding, to cut $880 billion in a bill to advance Trump's agenda.
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.
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Only consequential fraud is by medical corporations overcharging or scamming. Only going to get worse as they fire the auditors.
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I mean if Republicans really wanted to root out fraud they have a resident expert with first hand knowledge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How about instead of stripping all taxes from the rich we, y"know, fucken tax them?
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I like them sliced and in a head basket. Tyvm
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That was always the goal. This is how they sell it to aging boomers and rural voters depending on those programs.
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Sounds like they're about to find some cost savings in the budget office.
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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.
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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.
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That was the point.
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CBO about to get fired
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Lies boosted by corporate news sewers.