MACCALLUM: “If you don’t cut something in entitlements, you’ll never really deal with the debt.”
TRUMP: “Oh, we’ll be cutting.”
This morning, the White House desperately tried to walk back Trump’s comments, but it won’t work. We already know what Trump wants to do.
Trump’s said it before.
KERNEN: “Entitlements ever be on your plate?”
TRUMP: “At some point they will be. We have tremendous growth. We’re going to have tremendous growth. This next year I– it’ll be toward the end of the year. The growth is going to be incredible. And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that’s actually the easiest of all things.”
And he’s shown us.
Year after year, Trump’s budgets have called for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
- Trump’s FY21 budget proposal called for a net Medicare cut of $480 billion.
- Trump’s FY21 budget called for $24 billion in cuts to Social Security programs.
- Trump’s FY21 budget would cut Medicaid spending by $920 billion over 10 years.
- Trump’s FY20 budget proposed cutting $575 billion from Medicare.
- Trump’s FY20 budget proposed a $26 billion cut to Social Security programs.
- Trump’s FY20 budget would cut overall Medicaid spending by nearly $1.5 trillion.
- Trump’s FY19 budget proposed $72.5 billion in cuts to SSDI and Supplemental Security Income.
- Trump’s FY19 budget proposed cutting Medicare spending by $554 billion.
- Trump’s FY19 budget would cut Medicaid spending by about $250 billion.
- Trump’s FY18 budget called for a $70 billion cut to SSDI benefits.
- Trump’s FY 18 budget proposed a $600 billion cut to Medicaid.