Posted on 03/12/2019 6:57:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former Vice President Joe Biden maybe be reconsidering his harsh criticisms over President Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicare.
The Trump administration unveiled its budget proposal for 2020. As IJR previously reported, the budget aims to decrease the annual deficit and secure the final funding needed to complete the southern border wall.
As part of Trump’s proposed budget, the administration decided to keep cuts proposed by the Obama Administration when it comes to Medicare. According to a report by Axios, Trump’s team proposed cutting around $800 billion over ten years, with the majority of the spending cuts coming from renegotiations of expenses, not cutting people from the program.
This strategy of cutting expenses without cutting recipients was the same argument made by former President Barack Obama after he was criticized by then-candidate Mitt Romney over a cut to Medicare that was a result of the Affordable Care Act.
Someone must have forgotten to tell Biden that, because he blasted the proposal during a speech Tuesday morning.
Watch:
“I was going to stay away from this but I can’t. Did you see the budget that was just introduced? It cuts, it cuts $845 billion — almost a trillion dollar cut in Medicare. And almost a quarter trillion, $240 billion cut in Medicaid. Why? Because of a tax cut for the super wealthy that created a deficit of $1.9 trillion dollars, and now they gotta go make somebody pay for it. Something that gave millionaires and billionaires excessive tax breaks. And who are they asking to pay for it? Middle-class families like you in the neighborhood I grew up in. Trading Medicare for tax breaks. How’s that going to help anybody in this room?”
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
Biden is sounding really old.
Gee, I wonder what Biden’s net worth is...
But orange man bad...
Looks like a million damn dollars.
Or maybe he does and is just being a hypocritical demagogue.
Slow Joe Biden is a racist. I’m only half kidding.
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