Republican Mark Alford Just Says Flat Out They'll Cut Medicare [View all]
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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