Washington – Pouse Republicans do not meet their own budget Target required to pass the owner of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda without making an important Medicare or Medicaid cut, the official scorekeeper of the budget confirmed on Wednesday.
Pouse Republicans adopt a Budget Blueprint last week opening the door to passing Trump’s policy priorities to immigration, energy and tax. It taught the Energy Committee and Commerce Committee to cut the spending under its jurisdiction at $ 880 billion.
Congress Budget Office, a nonpartisan in-house tank that is referring to the process, saying Medicare setting, the Committee’s jurisdate is $ 8.8 trillion in a 10-year period. Medicaid Accounts for $ 8.2 trillion that, or 93%.
If Medicare and Medicaid excludes, the Committee is in charge of $ 581 billion spending – more than $ 880 billion targets – CBO said. the Letter that plays numbers came in response to a question of Rep. Frank Pallone, DN.J., Ranked Member of Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Boyle Boyle, D-Pa. Rank member of the budget committee.
Leaving the Republicans in a deeper state. The budget resolution, was adopted by the slimmest of margins in the narrow-divided house, is the most product of negotiations between conservative spending lawmakers in the swing-district GOP they say Don’t want to gather in funds For health programs that have been relied on their covers.
Changing that target will raise one of the factions and potential risks the support of the main votes to pass the agenda to return the budget progressing on Budget’s agenda.
Democrats have made the Protection of Medicaid a centerpiece of their attack on the party-line GOP agenda, accusing Trump of trying to cut health care for the working class to pay for tax for the wealthy. Rep. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, Mao carried outside home at home During Trump’s talk on Congress Tuesday night after a constant mess with him and shouting, “You don’t have mandates to cut Medicaid!”
“This letter from the CBO confirms what we say to everyone: Math doesn’t work without spoiling medicaid cuts,” said Wednesday in a statement. “Republicans know their rotation is a lie, and they have no problem with health care from millions of Americans and pay bad taxes than they do.”
Trump recently said to an interview with Fox News, “Medicare, Medicaid – None of the things that are touched.”
Medicare provides health care to older people. Medicaid gives the range of American earnings and disabled Americans.
But the Republicans Republicans do not agree with Trump and placed Medicaid at the chopping block. SULTNIZE MIKE JOHNSON, R-LA., Medicaid says it’s on the table for revisiting spending.
“Medicaid has a problem because it has a lot of cheating, rubbish and abuse,” Johnson told reporters last week. “I think it’s $ 50 billion in medicaid alone. It’s worth the taxpayer’s valuable dollars. It is worth the Medicare benefits and qualify for it.” Waste and abuse. “
When asked to back up that number, Johnson’s office Quoted a statistic From centers for Medicare and Medicaid services that “incorrect payment rate” under Medicaid $ 50.3 billion. But the report has cleansed errors not usually a product of cheating.
“In 2023 with an improper payment of Medicaid, 82% is the result of insufficient documentation,” CMS letter to 2023 reports. “These payments typically engage in situations where a state or provider misses an administrative step and should not indicate deception or abuse.”
Trumpet Medicaid not mentioned In his utterance in a jointed Congress session last Tuesday.
