“The director of the Office of Management and Budget said Thursday that President Trump would “absolutely” keep his campaign trail promise not to cut entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security in the federal budget.”
And yet that’s literally, explicitly and demonstrably what Trump and the GOPers/Teatrolls are doing with the TrumpCare legislation he’s already giving the thumbs-up…fucking these things through the budget…which is even further highlighted by their use of Reconciliation to get it through.
Again, you will see no reference to Social Security here, no reference to Medicare here, no reference to Medicaid here, or any of the other mandatory programs, what some people call entitlement programs, because that’s not what this budget is.
Notice that what he’s saying is that that isn’t what this budget is so from that standpoint he’s right. However, since Trump has already broken his promise by supporting a bill that guts Medicaid, to the tune of nearly a trillion dollars, his reassurances about the full budget are worthless.
Except he supports Ttumpcare. The ACA takes 700 million from Medicare to help fund the ACA. This 700 million is offset by reduced payments to Hospitals , and other providers, not doctors, because of reduced liabilities to Hospitals because of the reduction of the free service they were providing to the uninsured.
In the current GOP plan these Medicare funds will not be returned to Medicare. Although payments to Hospitals will need to go up as the uninsured rises.
Yes, because after we slash all the programs designed to aid seniors, the ill and the disabled, we won’t have to cut their Social Security. They’ll be dead.
Spicer also argued today that cutting the budget for any program or organization really isn’t a “cut” - it’s just a way to get them to spend their money differently. (That was mixed in with his double-speak, anger, and distraction today.) So, they can cut Medicare and Social Security without really cutting them, right???
I think these folks,Trumps voters by the way feel this is and entitlement,that seems to be in trouble and also reminds folks who vote Republican they are always voting against their own self interest:
" By Valerie Volcovici | PAINTSVILLE, Kentucky
President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating funding for economic development programs supporting laid-off coal miners and others in Appalachia, stirring fears in a region that supported him of another letdown on the heels of the coal industry’s collapse.
The 2018 budget proposal submitted to Congress by the White House on Thursday would cut funds to the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The Washington-based organizations are charged with diversifying the economies of states like West Virginia and Kentucky to help them recover from coal’s decline"
Mulvaney is quite the dim bulb. So many of these Trump administration officials are. There are no details on anything they put out because I honestly don’t think they’re capable. Now they’re interviewing people in West Virginia saying “well cuts will hurt but National Security is more important”…to the tune of more than half a trillion dollars. Honest to God if they don’t figure out that Trump doesn’t give one goddamn about them soon he’s going to ruin everything.
Because we all know that Trump has never broken: a promise, an agreement, a written contract, a declaratory statement about something he definitely would or would not do.
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“OMB Director: Trump Will ‘Keep The Promises’ On Not Touching Entitlements.”
That would be the first thing in his life that he didn’t touch uninvited.
[/quote] But he thought he was “entitled” to those things he touched, albeit without invitation. When you own the pageant, you own all the (underage) girls in it. [Notice the “quotes.” I may or may not mean, in a way to be determined later, whatever it is I said, wrote, or thought.]
You know these days I’m scraping the bottom of the snark barrel and with some comments (never on here) it’s just so hard to tell if some one is an asshole, pretending to be an asshole, or something, something…
I agree, it is hard. I think the hardest part is snark and parody way out on the edge of reality that isn’t in the realm of truth. It’s not the same at all, and feels like walking in jello.
