Trump Opens Door to Cuts to Medicare and Other Entitlement Programs The president signaled a willingness to scale back Medicare, a shift from his 2016 platform of protecting entitlement programs. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/us/politics/medicare-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR1MitqgLv87acrPQ9dEQVlPeyZiPDDEbER5PxalizuhLMm3xrUWJOxPeuk