mark francis
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We need to fix the math. Cutting spending will either lower debt increases or leave the debt unchanged, but cutting expenses will not add to the debt.
WASHINGTON ― House Republicans who voted to pass President Donald Trump’s tax bill last week know it’s going to slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion and kick millions of people off of their health care.
But that sounds bad. And people already hate this law. So instead of saying that, Republicans are trying out a new way of talking about the bill they all voted for: just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid spending!
“I don’t know how you can call any of this a cut when we are increasing Medicaid expenditures by $200 billion,” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) falsely claimed Tuesday on a conservative podcast, “The Bob Cordaro Show.”
Later in the show, Bresnahan also falsely claimed the law will lead to “the largest deficit reduction in, I think, what will be 30 years.”
It’s not clear what the Pennsylvania Republican is talking about regarding the $200 billion, but he is being misleading at best and lying at worst. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has clearly laid out how Trump’s tax-and-spending law will cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years.
A Bresnahan spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
WASHINGTON ― House Republicans who voted to pass President Donald Trump’s tax bill last week know it’s going to slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion and kick millions of people off of their health care.
But that sounds bad. And people already hate this law. So instead of saying that, Republicans are trying out a new way of talking about the bill they all voted for: just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid spending!
“I don’t know how you can call any of this a cut when we are increasing Medicaid expenditures by $200 billion,” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) falsely claimed Tuesday on a conservative podcast, “The Bob Cordaro Show.”
Later in the show, Bresnahan also falsely claimed the law will lead to “the largest deficit reduction in, I think, what will be 30 years.”
It’s not clear what the Pennsylvania Republican is talking about regarding the $200 billion, but he is being misleading at best and lying at worst. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has clearly laid out how Trump’s tax-and-spending law will cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years.
A Bresnahan spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
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