'There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,' Trump said.
Former President Donald Trump waits to take the stage during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center on March 9, 2024, in Rome, Georgia.On Monday, former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for president in the 2024 election, appeared to suggest he was open to the idea of “cutting” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a notion his aides quickly tried to dispel and that the Biden campaign attempted to capitalize on.
“There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements — in terms of cutting — and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements,” Republicans — and Trump himself — have raised the idea of “cutting” these programs before, but such proposals are wildly unpopular, as many Americans depend on social safety net programs for when they hit retirement age or for if/when they face financial difficulties.Shortly after, Trump’s campaign team tried to do damage control, with a spokesperson stating that the GOP candidate for president was “clearly talking about cutting waste, not entitlements” themselves.
Yet there are two problems with that presumption. First, the very fact that a statement to clarify Trump’s words was needed at all suggests that Trump’s words weren’t as “clear” as his campaign claims them to be. Second, Trump stated “in terms of cutting” the programs, when he aimed to reduce spending on Medicaid by $1.5 trillion, on Social Security by $25 billion and on Medicare by $845 billion.
Eighty-eight percent of voters backed expanding the Medicare provision enacted by Biden during his first term to allow the program to negotiate the cost of popular prescription drugs. On Social Security, 78 percent supported increasing taxes on billionaires in order to increase the number of benefits that program allotted, while 76 percent supported the idea of providing subsidized health insurance in states that haven’t yet expanded Medicaid coverage.
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