President Donald Trump repeatedly said that if he was elected in the campaign trail, he would not cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Recently, with his agent, Elon Musk, he last week I told Sean Hannity of Fox News Same thing.
But the Republican Republican Party received another message. Project 2025. They passed a budget resolution that demanded $ 2 trillion in tax reductions and federal spending by 2035 by 2035.
In this proposal, Medicaid, which supports health care for low -income people, nursing homes and the disabled, will cost $ 880 billion. It will open a way for Trump to extend the 2017 tax reduction for the richest people of the United States this year. It also threatens a medical safety net created by the US Affordable Care Act.
Now it depends on the Republican Led Senate and the House of Representatives. Adjust the difference between the initial Senate plan and the recent version of the House of Representatives.
The $ 880 billion of the Medicaid Fund has a high poverty rate in states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansa, and Louisiana, which helps many people in red states.
More than 1.8 million Washington residents are registered in Medicade. Such cuts will hit Washington and harm more Republican areas than the Democratic Party.
Maria Cantwell, a Democratic Senator, cited the numbers of the Washington State Hospital Association of Washington State Hospital, 23%of the 23%inpatient treatment in Washington and foreign patient treatment in Washington. It was said that 19%of funds were funded.
According to Cantwell’s office, eight rural hospitals in Washington have received more than 25% of the total repayment from Medicaid, Centwell’s office said.
However, Dan Newhouse 4 District 4 and District 5 Michael Baumgartner, the two Republican parliamentary members, voted for the cut of Medicaid, which is the highest proportion of the Medicide beneficiaries in the Washington district, and 4-70%are among the five children. 38%, 30%of district 5.
“The passage of this resolution is unlocked, keeps the border, and gains energy control,” he said in a prepared statement. “I look forward to cooperating with my colleagues in two chambers to identify savings and efficiency in federal expenditures.”
One egg of hope is no longer a fear of the Washington’s sunset with some Republicans, such as the Senate of the Senate, Mitch McConnell. It is not Trump, Musk, and Project 2025, but it is up to them to increase the courage to vote for their members and the national interests.
