Donald Trump has spent months insisting that there will be no cuts to Medicaid. On Feb. 18 in an interview he said “none of that stuff is going to be touched”, on Feb. 26 he told a Cabinet meeting “we’re not going to touch it”, and on May 4 he told journalists he’d veto any bill that includes Medicaid cuts, saying “they’re not cutting it”, underlining: “We’re not cutting Medicaid, we’re not cutting Medicare, and we’re not cutting Social Security.”
Now I hope you’re sitting down for this, but President Trump may not have been being entirely truthful. Shocker, I know. Trump had already admitted he wants to eliminate “waste, fraud, and abuse”, which many have already pointed out effectively means that Medicaid will be slashed.
