Paying for Trump’s agenda could require a GOP war over welfare and Medicaid

The price tag for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda is quickly adding up, particularly as Republicans eye making expiring tax cuts permanent that could cost $5 trillion to $11 trillion.

Entitlements and Medicaid could be on the chopping block by slashing eligibility with work requirements, as the White House sets its sights on funding cuts that go beyond discretionary spending and into mandatory outlays that have historically been unpopular to touch.

Mandatory spending cost $3.8 trillion of the $6.1 trillion in total outlays for fiscal year 2023, with more than half for Social Security and Medicare that Trump and Republicans say are largely off limits. That leaves programs like Medicaid, which provides health insurance to more than 70 million low-income Americans, and entitlements benefits like food stamps and unemployment insurance that could be singled out.

Trump has vowed to “love and cherish” Medicaid, but there's an appetite among Republicans to make it harder to qualify to reduce the program’s cost which topped $616 billion in fiscal year 2023. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have emphasized that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are largely off the table except for fraud and abuse.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

I wish they'd do something to expand mental illness coverage and improve access. States like Minnesota make it impossible to get a mentally ill family member evaluated and into treatment/committed. Additionally, community care facilities like halfway houses and group homes for mentally ill are woefully underfunded, criminally understaffed, and in horrifying short (inadequate) supply.


aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I thought Medicaid was State, not Federal. Medicare is Federal.


I think giving illegal aliens/migrants/etc. Social Security and Medicare is fraud and abuse.
Ditto giving SSDI to felons over 50 being released from the penitentiary because problems getting a job due to criminal behavior and record.

 

[1LoverofGod]

I wish they'd do something to expand mental illness coverage and improve access. States like Minnesota make it impossible to get a mentally ill family member evaluated and into treatment/committed. Additionally, community care facilities like halfway houses and group homes for mentally ill are woefully underfunded, criminally understaffed, and in horrifying short (inadequate) supply.


aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I thought Medicaid was State, not Federal. Medicare is Federal.


I think giving illegal aliens/migrants/etc. Social Security and Medicare is fraud and abuse.
Ditto giving SSDI to felons over 50 being released from the penitentiary because problems getting a job due to criminal behavior and record.

I pray your sibling receives proper care for his mental health and has in hospital care for treatment by the direction of Almighty God


The Medicaid program is jointly funded by the federal government and states. The federal government pays states for a specified percentage of program expenditures, called the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). States must ensure they can fund their share of Medicaid expenditures for the care and services available under their state plan.

Financial Management | Medicaid

www.medicaid.gov

 

[mattfivefour]

The price tag for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda is quickly adding up, particularly as Republicans eye making expiring tax cuts permanent that could cost $5 trillion to $11 trillion.

Entitlements and Medicaid could be on the chopping block by slashing eligibility with work requirements, as the White House sets its sights on funding cuts that go beyond discretionary spending and into mandatory outlays that have historically been unpopular to touch.

Mandatory spending cost $3.8 trillion of the $6.1 trillion in total outlays for fiscal year 2023, with more than half for Social Security and Medicare that Trump and Republicans say are largely off limits. That leaves programs like Medicaid, which provides health insurance to more than 70 million low-income Americans, and entitlements benefits like food stamps and unemployment insurance that could be singled out.

Trump has vowed to “love and cherish” Medicaid, but there's an appetite among Republicans to make it harder to qualify to reduce the program’s cost which topped $616 billion in fiscal year 2023. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have emphasized that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are largely off the table except for fraud and abuse.

Complete Article

MSN

I think this is just an MSN hit piece trying to create fear about Medicaid and other social programs and this resistance against President Trump. The Media Bias Fact Check site rates MSN as "left center biased with most stories coming from left center sources."

 

[1LoverofGod]

I think this is just an MSN hit piece trying to create fear about Medicaid and other social programs and this resistance against President Trump. The Media Bias Fact Check site rates MSN as "left center biased with most stories coming from left center sources."

If you notice at the beginning of the article it shows the exact duplicate story from where it originated.
The Washington Examiner is a credible Conservative News site. You can look at the site of The Washington Examiner and see the story. The reason I used MSN is because the Washington Examiner wants a subscription to get the entire article. But it's the same on MSM and legally they have to credit the story to the original source.

 

[mattfivefour]

If you notice at the beginning of the article it shows the exact duplicate story from where it originated.
The Washington Examiner is a credible Conservative News site. You can look at the site of The Washington Examiner and see the story. The reason I used MSN is because the Washington Examiner wants a subscription to get the entire article. But it's the same on MSM and legally they have to credit the story to the original source.

Thank you. I stand corrected. Maybe the bias is not from the left but from the RINO right.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I think giving illegal aliens/migrants/etc. Social Security and Medicare is fraud and abuse.

Amen.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Thank you. I stand corrected. Maybe the bias is not from the left but from the RINO right.

The way I understand it by checking other sites is Trump wants to hold on to Medicaid without touching it but the Republicans in Congress are wanting to make cuts in spending and it's conflicting with Trump's agenda.
How is this bias? By the article or Congress trying to make cuts where Trump doesn't want cuts?

 

[mattfivefour]

The way I understand it by checking other sites is Trump wants to hold on to Medicaid without touching it but the Republicans in Congress are wanting to make cuts in spending and it's conflicting with Trump's agenda.
How is this bias? By the article or Congress trying to make cuts where Trump doesn't want cuts?

I don't know, Rose. The Republicans still appear to have a major problem in their party. As long as they keep their eyes on the reasons President Trump was elected decisively in November, they will be okay. Pragmatism must supersede dogma. Unfortunately there are a number of Republicans for whom traditional Republican values are dogmatic. And there is another subset who are more concerned with protecting their positions that in getting behind the president. I cannot tell whether bringing the internal civil War as the Democrats call it within the Republican parties out into the public to an article such as this is serving the public, the MAGA caucus within the party, or the RINOs. All I do know is that if Republicans fight among themselves as they have in the past, this administration is not going to accomplish nearly as much as it could (and needs to) and, if it doesn't, I truly fear we will see the Democrats back in power following the midterms.

This is what is troubling my mind. That said, God called me out of covering politics and other stories of worldly concern many years ago and called me to proclaim His gospel and feed His sheep. I've got to stop slipping back into my old life and simply focus on what God has called me to do.

 

[1LoverofGod]

I don't know, Rose. The Republicans still appear to have a major problem in their party. As long as they keep their eyes on the reasons President Trump was elected decisively in November, they will be okay. Pragmatism must supersede dogma. Unfortunately there are a number of Republicans for whom traditional Republican values are dogmatic. And there is another subset who are more concerned with protecting their positions that in getting behind the president. I cannot tell whether bringing the internal civil War as the Democrats call it within the Republican parties out into the public to an article such as this is serving the public, the MAGA caucus within the party, or the RINOs. All I do know is that if Republicans fight among themselves as they have in the past, this administration is not going to accomplish nearly as much as it could (and needs to) and, if it doesn't, I truly fear we will see the Democrats back in power following the midterms.

This is what is troubling my mind. That said, God called me out of covering politics and other stories of worldly concern many years ago and called me to proclaim His gospel and feed His sheep. I've got to stop slipping back into my old life and simply focus on what God has called me to do.

I understand.
There's always been bad fruit within the Republican party and has worsened over years.
It is concerning. I think it's also concerning that there are Democrats within this New administration who have said some good things but have not publicly stated they have left their liberal views and having infiltration with possible fakes just to have access to this administration is concerning.
But even with my concerns, I follow what's happening just to know what's going on, but I personally don't like to put my hopes in fallen humans who may not be trustworthy as the Psalms tell us, my hope and trust is in God, because when it's God's timing, He will proceed with His Plan for Jesus to remove every ruler in the world and take His rightful Rule as King (Daniel 2:44), and it could accelerate to this point sooner than we think.
Anyway, thank you for clarifying what you meant.

 

[Tall Timbers]

The Republicans still appear to have a major problem in their party.

Yep. Most of them are RINOs who are no better than the demonrats. They want to get re-elected and hold on to their power though so they need to look like good American loving Conservatives while secretly looking for ways to enrich themselves off of the taxpayer.

You can see the Deep State at work with the slow rolling of approval for Trump's people. I don't think the minority demonrats can be blamed for that.