'How can he not know?' House Dem aghast at Trump's ignorance of his own bill
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) was stunned when confronted by new reporting on MSNBC that President Donald Trump is unaware that his own "big, beautiful bill" he is pressing Republicans to pass contains nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
"Representative Clark, you may be able to count among the Americans who don't understand why Republicans would do some of these things, the president himself," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "This headline absolutely stopped me in my tracks today. This is from NOTUS: 'Trump still doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp about what his signature legislative achievement does. According to three sources with direct knowledge of the comments, the president told Republicans at this meeting that there are three things Congress shouldn’t touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. 'But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,' one member responded to Trump, according to the three sources.'"
"Is it possible that the president of the United States does not understand what is in the legislation he is currently jamming through the U.S. House of Representatives?" Menendez asked her.
"It certainly seems that is the case," said Clark. "I mean, how can he not know that this bill cuts one trillion, with a T, dollars out of Medicaid? That is going to be, between that and the cuts to the ACA, 17 million Americans who are going to have their health care ripped away from them."
"But it goes on," she added. "Because of formulas, it will cut half a trillion from Medicare. This is something Donald Trump has pledged over and over he will never touch. And meanwhile, they continue to erode the Social Security Administration, all with the goal you break it so you can rob it. So those three pillars he says they will never touch, are directly and cruelly and devastatingly impacted in this bill."
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