There is simply no way for Energy & Commerce to meet its stipulated target of $880 billion in savings without Medicaid being subject to deep, deep cuts. The E&C policy options listed in that 52-page menu include of potential offsets, excluding Medicare and Medicaid, only sum up to $206 billion - ThreadSky

adrianna.bsky.social • 3 days ago

There is simply no way for Energy & Commerce to meet its stipulated target of $880 billion in savings without Medicaid being subject to deep, deep cuts.

The E&C policy options listed in that 52-page menu include of potential offsets, excluding Medicare and Medicaid, only sum up to $206 billion

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Trump just said on Fox that Medicaid won’t be touched:

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adrianna.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe reconciliation won't pass — moderate Republicans are starting to make noises of concern.

But it "Medicaid won't be touched" is mathematically incompatible with "the House Energy & Commerce Committee will save $880 billion over the budget window"

jennywhyme.bsky.social•3 days ago

There aren't any moderate Republicans.

adrianna.bsky.social•3 days ago

Typos in both of the above are good reminders not to post before coffee

notdred.bsky.social•3 days ago

I hope I’m wrong but this year it feels like fear of Trump overcomes the moderate Republican desire to avoid severe cuts

adrianna.bsky.social•3 days ago

The thing I'm not sure about is whether Trump would go to the mat to make sure the reconciliation bill does a permanent extension/that it doesn't add to the deficit. He was just fine adding to the deficit with TCJA

It would make hardliners mad, but their seats are way less vulnerable

adrianna.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not saying any of this with a lot of confidence and I suspect at least some significant cuts are coming... but I genuinely don't know who gets left out in the cold on Medicaid specifically, the GOP members that are furthest left or furthest right

katiecannon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Dick Cheney: Deficits don’t matter

Trump: Our government just prints money & can never go broke

katiecannon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Democrats: Money comes from tax payers 🙄

danielwbrody.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also I mean if they don't end up actually cutting much they will just lie about it and pretend they did and most media won't push them on it.

dlmanning.bsky.social•3 days ago

Honestly I feel like our best hope right now is that it does and that the resulting public fury washes out GOP out of control of Congress at the midterms.

notdred.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah I think hence why this is pretty much the Dem strategy right now

dlmanning.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean I’m torn because they can do a lot of damage in two years and it means people will be hurt, infrastructure will be destroyed.

It’s just that right now I don’t see any path back that doesn’t involve the portion of Trump voters closest to sanity seeing the actual results of this shit.

msarchiteuthis.bsky.social•3 days ago

It doesn't matter what he says. He'd nominate a space alien to his cabinet if it were beneficial or got the press to stop asking about something.

fstuart.bsky.social•3 days ago

What if you just add three more zeros to the $206 billion?

crybabyjoestar.bsky.social•3 days ago

All he does is lie and is a figurehead for musk doing whatever he wants at this point.

livinglife81.bsky.social•3 days ago

They won't call whatever they do (block grants, work requirement etc) "cuts".
They'll call it "making it more efficient/cutting fraud" MAGA/RW will hijack the narrative, people will believe it - until it starts to affect them personally.

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