Trump’s Medicaid ‘Cuts’ Actually Increase Federal Spending
29th May 2017
Last week, President Trump proposed massive spending increases for Medicaid.
Of course, most of the media didn’t report it that way. They reported that the president’s proposal “slashes spending.” That he wants to cut “at least $610 billion” from Medicaid. That “Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid.” And so on.
That might be vaguely true in the Washington sense. It’s not at all true in the real-world sense.
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Either way, the Medicaid budget is going to grow. But under Trump’s proposal, it would grow more slowly. This is how Democrats and the media can scream about supposedly savage “cuts” to the program.