Summary
House Republicans cannot meet their budget target without major cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Their budget plan requires $880 billion in cuts, but with Medicare excluded, Medicaid makes up 93% of the available funds.
This puts Republicans in a bind between conservative hard-liners demanding cuts and moderates opposing reductions to essential health programs.
While Trump claims Medicaid will be untouched, Speaker Mike Johnson argues it has excessive fraud.
How about instead of stripping all taxes from the rich we, y"know, fucken tax them?
The rich are setting the fucking taxes now. The good ending for them is no taxes
I like them sliced and in a head basket. Tyvm
That was always the goal. This is how they sell it to aging boomers and rural voters depending on those programs.
CBO about to get fired
No shit? Glad it’s “official,” I guess, but literally anyone left with basic arithmetic skills and common sense knew that gutting fed workers wasn’t going to even remotely be enough to make up $2 trillion. So many analysts had said as much all summer long when DOGE started being floated.
Not to mention the obviously rushed and dumbass way they’re just wholesale firing is absolutely going to have hidden costs resulting from those agencies trying to make up for suddenly not having the ability to… do what they’re supposed to.
I can save a lot of money now by never changing the oil in my car but later Im gonna pay out the ass cause I’m gonna have to pay to replace the whole engine because of it.
Yes they fucking can. They always could.
Imagine you run a business that takes a big job from some incorporated businesses. Now imagine at the end you find out you operated at a loss. Now imagine you agree to keep doing that job every fucking year WHILE TAKING EVEN LESS MONEY FOR DECADES.
If the GOP wants to run the government like a business then they need to start charging the rich their share of taxes.
Lies boosted by corporate news sewers.
