47% cuts to Medicaid, 41% to Medicare, 8% to Social Security, per Mother Jones.
The GOP and DT are playing good cop, bad cop.
The GOP are working on a budget with terrible cuts. Along comes DT with a budget that would be even worse.
Suddenly, the GOP budget doesn't look so terrible.
That's how they're going to play us. Don't let them.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/report-trump-team-wants-slash-social-security-medicare-medicaid-and-pretty-much-e
This is terrifying, of course, but it's also puzzling. $10.5 trillion over ten years? That's a trillion dollars a year. If you eliminated the domestic discretionary budget entirely, you'd only save half a trillion bucks. So how do they do it?
Well, we're told that the proposed budget cuts "hew closely" to a recent Heritage Foundation report, so I went and took a look. The answer, of course, is that the only way to cut that kind of money is to take a meat axe to everything, including Social Security and Medicare. Here's a chart:
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