As Trump cuts entitlements, Trump denies Trump said Trump will cut entitlements
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/6/1925083/-As-Trump-cuts-entitlements-Trump-denies-Trump-said-Trump-will-cut-entitlements
Well, look at this. Here's impeached Donald Trump telling a Fox News Town Hall, "We will be cutting" entitlements, meaning Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare, and what is better termed social insurance. Oops. Does he know who the Fox News demographic is?
If he wasn't cognizant enough to figure that out in the moment (who am I kidding, of course he wasn't), someone explained it to him later, because this morning he was tweeting away to try to cover it up. "I will protect your Social Security and Medicare, just as I have for the past 3 years," he tweeted. Hey, guess what. That's a lie. Trump has been both proposing cuts to all these programs and making cuts through regulations and executive orders.
Just in the past six months, the Trump administration created regulations to cut people out of Social Security Disability Insurance. These are actual actions that will take benefits away from people who have worked to earn them. He has issued executive orders and taken actions that weaken Medicare and ultimately harm Medicare enrollees, raising their costs. When Medicare enrollees are paying more for their care but without a benefit increase, that's a cut.
From work requirements to block grants, the Trump administration's war on Medicaid has already proven devastating. There are one million fewer young children who have health care because of Trump's Medicaid cuts.
So yes, Trump will continue to cut these social insurance programs as well as the rest of the safety net—from food stamps to energy assistance.