The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website April 7, 2017:
Host John Dickerson: “Entitlements, that’s where the big money is. The president has said he didn’t want to touch Medicare, but he seems to be revising his thinking on that.”
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney: “Well, I think the promise was he wasn’t going to affect anybody and we haven’t with this budget. Keep in mind what this budget is. This is just the discretionary spending part of the budget, which was a necessary first step.”
Dickerson: “But he might look at future retirement — future Medicare recipients?” Continue reading “Fact Checker: White House budget director’s claim that Social Security disability is ‘very wasteful’”