The following article by Ryan Koronowski was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 12, 2018:
This would be over a trillion dollars in cuts to some of the nation’s most vulnerable.
When he began his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.”
This is a promise, however, President Trump would like to break. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal would cut all three programs, which help the most vulnerable in American society, by billions of dollars.
Fox News’s website tells readers that Medicare is spared “as he promised during the 2016 campaign,” but a cursory search of the White House’s own budget document reveals this is not true. Continue reading “Trump’s budget cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, breaking core campaign promise”