The Republican nominee-in-waiting said that “there’s a lot you can do in terms of cutting” when pressed on CNBC about the solvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The Republican nominee-in-waiting said that “there’s a lot you can do in terms of cutting” when pressed on CNBC about the solvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opened the door Monday to “cutting” spending under Social Security and Medicare, drawing swift pushback from President Joe Biden and elevating a key policy battle in the 2024 election.

Phoning into CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Trump was pressed on how he plans to resolve the long-term solvency problems of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

“So first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” Trump responded. “And in terms of, also, the theft and the bad management of entitlements — tremendous bad management of entitlements — there’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The social security cut will be coupled with a tax cut for the rich

    Nah, Republicans aren’t quite that stupid. They’ll throw out a $200 increase to the child tax credit for six months or an increase in the standard deduction. Everyone (who isn’t already zeroed out by the last round of tax cuts) will get a taste.

    And you’ll be told to just be grateful the “job creators” blessed you with technically-slightly-better-than-slave wages you can spend renting your home from them

    This record low unemployment is, unironically, the right-wing technocrat’s wet dream. Everybody kicking and clawing for a seat at the table in a market that’s very easy to enter and very unsteady to climb. It really is the War Of All Against All out there. Survival of the Whitest Fittest. Real Social Darwinism Hours.

    You, too can gamble on Bitcoins / Sports Betting, win big, and pull together enough money to become a landlord, so you can tell the next generation to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

    Or gamble and lose and just fucking die, to thereby decrease the surplus population.