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Lyin' Trump promised to protect Medicaid. He lied through his teeth.

By Hunter
Thursday May 04, 2017 · 5:20 PM CST

Yet another in the many, many points that need to be made today:

While campaigning, Trump promised--repeatedly--not to touch Medicaid. The bill he's backing today savages Medicaid. $880 billion in cuts. pic.twitter.com/slXBa4vrcV https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/860130321425104896/video/1
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 4, 2017

The House bill takes an axe to Medicaid, and isn’t subtle about it. It cuts over three quarters of a trillion dollars from the program—and turns the federal program into a block grant endeavor in which states are turned loose to use the remaining money with reduced federal oversight. It’s the money cut from Medicaid that provides the cash required to cut taxes on wealthy Americans, in fact. That’s where they’re getting the money from.

Setting federal oversight aside, “protecting Medicaid” means “cutting $880 billion from Medicaid” under no possible interpretation of “protect.”

So yes, Trump voters; he lied to you. He lied bigly. He just held a Rose Garden victory party to celebrate the House voting to decapitate and dismember the program.

It�s Thursday. How many people have lost their healthcare today?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2014

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/4/1658995/-Trump-promised-to-protect-Medicaid-He-lied-through-his-teeth