The official budget score confirmed on Wednesday that the Washington -Republican Republican Party did not significantly reduce Medicare or Medicaid, and could not meet his budget goals for passing Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.
The Republican Republican Party adopted a budget blueprint last week to open a door to pass Trump’s policy priorities on immigration, energy and taxes. It instructs the House of Representatives and Commercial Commission to cut expenses of $ 880 billion in jurisdiction.
The council budget office, a non -political party think tank that judges the process, said that the total funds for the committee’s jurisdiction when Medicare kept separately. Medicaid accounts for $ 8.2 trillion or 93%.
The CBO supervises a total of $ 580 billion in spending when Medicare and Medicaid are excluded, the CBO said. that A letter to explain the person ENERGY and Commerce Committe’s ranking members Frank Pallone, DN.J. Answer and D-PA Brendan Boyle. Ranking member of the Budget Committee.
It makes the Republican deep in trouble. The budget resolution, adopted by the thinnest margin in the narrowly divided house, was a delicate negotiation product between conservative hardlines who did not want to reduce steep spending and not to rely on health programs.
Modifying the goal can be at risk to the support of major voting to pass one of the camps and pass through the final budget adjustment bill that potentially develop Trump’s agenda.
The Democratic Party has made Medicaid as the center of attack on the party sailor’s GOP agenda, and Trump has accused him of reducing the health care of the working class in order to pay tax reductions of wealthy people. A spokesman for Al Green, a D-Texas, said on Tuesday night, Trump repeatedly interrupted and said, “There is no obligation to cut Medicaid!”
Pallone said in a statement on Wednesday, “This letter of CBO checks what we said. Mathematics does not work without a huge cut of Medicaid. “The Republican knows that his spin is a lie, and the truth has no problem in taking health care from millions of Americans, so the rich man can pay less than the rich.”
Trump said in a recent interview with FOX NEWS, “Medicare, Medicaid -No one of them will be touched.”
Medicare provides health care for the elderly. Medicaid extends medical insurance benefits to low -income and disabled people.
However, the Republican Republican Party did not agree with Trump and put Medicaid in the cutting board. Mike Johnson, a speaker of R-LA., said Medicaid is on a table that has been fixed.
Johnson told reporters last week, “Medicade has a big problem because there are many scams, waste and abuse.” “In Medicaid, I think $ 50 billion a year is a scam. They are valuable taxpayers’ dollars. Everyone is doing its best to preserve Medicare benefits for those who are desperately needed. What we say is to support fraud, waste and abuse. ”
I requested to back up the shame, Johnson’s office. I quoted statistics In Medicare and Medicaid Service Center, the “inappropriate payment rate” according to Medicaid is $ 50.3 billion. But this report made it clear that most of the errors are not fraudulent products.
The CMS said in a 2023 report, “82%of the 2023 Medicaid inappropriate payments were insufficient documentation. “These payments usually include a situation in which the state or provider misses the administrative stage and must indicate fraud or abuse.”
Trump did not mention Medicade during his talks on Tuesday.
