Summary

House Republicans cannot meet their budget target without major cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Their budget plan requires $880 billion in cuts, but with Medicare excluded, Medicaid makes up 93% of the available funds.

This puts Republicans in a bind between conservative hard-liners demanding cuts and moderates opposing reductions to essential health programs.

While Trump claims Medicaid will be untouched, Speaker Mike Johnson argues it has excessive fraud.

  • venotic
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    158 hours ago

    Man I can only hope that if we even survive just one year of this lunacy, that we’ve smartened up by 2026 to get a majority of these clowns out. That’s our honest and best chance right now.

      • @Serinus
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        21 hour ago

        Don’t capitulate in advance.

        • @[email protected]
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          127 minutes ago

          I’m in Canada, and I can 100% guarantee we won’t capitulate, even if we’re outnumbered and outgunned 100:1 :)

          • @Serinus
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            111 minutes ago

            So don’t encourage despair in Americans. It’ll be a lot easier if half of us are on your side, both trying to save America from fascism.

      • @[email protected]
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        148 hours ago

        It’s Russian style elections from here on out, where the numbers are made up and the votes don’t matter.

        • @[email protected]
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          67 hours ago

          And by here on out you mean since last November right ? The numbers don’t mean anything for a while now