BORING, BORING, BORING. I want 10 Billion taken out of all welfare programs and give it to ICE, build more cages like Obama did and make the border a target
range from our side.

Donald Trump is robbing the working and middle class to give huge tax breaks to the wealthiest among us.

In order to fund his corporate tax breaks and giveaways to the ultra-rich, he’s targeting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and more. His budget is a classic right-wing plan that would gut our most critical social programs.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is voting ‘no.’

We’re doing everything in our power to block Trump’s new budget. Can you sign your name to join AOC in opposing it?

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Trump’s sabotage of the working and middle classes is brazen. Here’s what his proposed budget would do:

Cut $850 billion from Medicare

Take $270 billion out of Medicaid

Reduce Social Security spending by $30 billion

Slash funding for student loan relief programs, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Education, eliminates some HUD affordable housing programs, and more

Meanwhile, defense spending stays the same. ICE’s budget is going up by almost 25%. He’s giving his quixotic border wall another $2 billion. And Amazon will still pay $0 in federal taxes.

Helping the wealthy and powerful afford another private jet while cutting life-saving social programs isn’t just unjust — it’s morally repugnant. Sign your name to join AOC in opposition to this budget:

'Is President Trump Really Proposing To Cut Medicare By $845 Billion?' NO

"The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget does a nice job walking through the math, and concludes that the net reduction in Medicare spending would be between $515 billion and $575 billion, not $845 billion. The White House projects that total Medicare spending over the next decade will top $10 trillion."

While even $515 billion is a lot of money, very little would directly affect beneficiaries. CRFB figures about 85 percent of the cuts would come from hospitals, doctors, skilled nursing facilities, and other providers.

Shifting accounts

To start, Trump is moving about one-third of the money–$269 billion—into a different section of the budget. He would not reduce spending for these two programs, which fund certain hospitals and medical education, he’d just shift them out of the Medicare account to somewhere else.


Of the rest, Trump’s budget saves $360 billion mostly by recycling or building on ideas first suggested by President Obama. Among the proposals: Paying post-acute and long-term care providers based on the clinical needs of beneficiaries rather than the site where the care is offered, and reducing payments to hospitals for the cost of patients who don’t pay their bills. In some cases, hospital-owned medical practices would be paid lower, outpatient rates even when they are located on a hospital campus.

None of these changes would increase costs to beneficiaries and some could, at least in theory, lower Medicare premiums. The potential downside: Some hospitals or nursing homes may stop providing services if they are no longer profitable.

Little chance of becoming law

About 11 percent of the cost savings would come from changes in the Medicare Part D drug benefit. Some beneficiaries would pay more out of pocket for prescription drugs and others less, depending on what medications they take and how much they cost. The administration also claims Medicare would save about $30 billion from broad changes to medical malpractice laws.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2019/03/14/is-president-trump-really-proposing-to-cut-medicare-by-845-billion/