That all changed in a window of time between 2003 and 2017. It started when the GOP-controlled Congress and President George W. Bush passed the massive Medicare prescription drug package in 2003. Then the original Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) was passed in 2010 by the Democrats; it was estimated to be "revenue-neutral" over the next ten years on the basis of $500 billion in future Medicare cuts.
The Republican Party won control of the House in 2010, and the Senate in 2012, by promising to restore those Medicare cuts.
The GOP then kept all the entitlement spending in place in 2017 when it failed to live up to its promise to repeal ObamaCare.
And so here we are.
And Trump is on solid political ground here -- not because massive entitlement spending isn't a problem, but because these duplicitous @ssholes in the GOP who have been pushing for entitlement reform have no leg to stand on while they piss away trillions of dollars on military campaigns all over the globe.
100%. It's obscene and glaring...
“The GOP then kept all the entitlement spending in place in 2017 when it failed to live up to its promise to repeal ObamaCare.
And so here we are.”
What about the CARES Act? Wasn’t that passed with the GOP in control of the senate and executive branches? It was a massive giveaway that handed “free money” to people I know that didn’t need the money and were doing great financially. It rewarded bad behavior by giving it to folks that weren’t “in need”. Talk about “entitlement spending”. But Trump just proved how he is not a fiscal conservative, which we already knew.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The spending primarily includes $300 billion in one-time cash payments to individual people who submit a tax return in America (with most single adults receiving $1,200 and families with children receiving more[5]),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act