{"id":1003921,"date":"2019-03-11T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003921"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:08:27","slug":"trumps-budget-breaks-his-promise-by-cutting-billions-from-medicare-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-budget-breaks-his-promise-by-cutting-billions-from-medicare-medicaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Budget Breaks His Promise By Cutting Billions From Medicare & Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump repeatedly promised he would not cut Medicare or Medicaid, but his new budget released today includes more than $1 trillion in cuts to both of these vital programs.<\/p>\n

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Trump made a campaign promise not to cut Medicare or Medicaid.<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cI was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. \u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cNow, also at stake in tomorrow’s election are your Medicare benefits. That’s a big deal. Democrats want to raid Medicare to find socialism. It won’t last long. Republicans will protect Medicare for our great seniors who have earned it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans stand for protecting Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and strengthening the safety net for truly needy Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s budget calls for cutting $845 billion from Medicare.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: “Trump for the first time calls for cutting $845 billion from Medicare, the popular health care program for the elderly that in the past he had largely said he would protect.”<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s budget proposes a major disruption to Medicaid by turning it into a block grant program, slashing its funding and eliminating the ACA\u2019s expansion program.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cHis budget would also propose a major overhaul of Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans run jointly with states, by turning more power over to states. This would save $241 billion over 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe spending plan calls for a cut of nearly $1.5 trillion in Medicaid over 10 years and for $1.2 trillion to be added for a new \u2018Market Based Health Care Grant\u2019 \u2014 that is, the block grants that would start in 2021. It also would eliminate funding for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has gone to about three dozen states over the past five years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump repeatedly promised he would not cut Medicare or Medicaid, but his new budget released today includes more than $1 trillion in cuts to both of these vital programs.   Trump made a campaign promise not to cut Medicare or Medicaid.   Trump: \u201cI was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s Budget Breaks His Promise By Cutting Billions From Medicare & Medicaid - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-budget-breaks-his-promise-by-cutting-billions-from-medicare-medicaid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-11T16:53:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:08:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-budget-breaks-his-promise-by-cutting-billions-from-medicare-medicaid\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-budget-breaks-his-promise-by-cutting-billions-from-medicare-medicaid\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s Budget Breaks His Promise By Cutting Billions From Medicare & Medicaid - 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