Adding ANOTHER Slappdowm om Elon Musk AND House RightWingNuts….
This IS going to complicate things for the House Spending Bill which depends on making cuts to Medicaid…
Trump KNOWS cuts to these safety net programs WOULD Generate a HUGE political VOTER Backlash that would wipe out support for Republican’s and his political power…
Musk IS again showing that his time running the show, for Trump, IS beginning to get Tired, and Losing Juice with Trump & Co…..
For Musk?
Politics is NOT a factor….
For the President?
It eventually HAS to be….
Musk, a top Trump adviser leading the effort to overhaul the federal workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency, appeared on Fox Business Network on Monday for a rare television interview, where he noted that most government spending is on entitlements.
“So, the waste and fraud in entitlement spending, which is all of the — which is most of the federal spending is entitlements. So, that’s, like, the big one to eliminate,” Musk told former Trump official Larry Kudlow, suggesting it could amount to more than $500 billion in annual savings.
Multiple media outlets reported on Musk’s comments and indicated the Tesla CEO was talking about cutting entitlement programs to reduce government spending. Such a move would trigger significant political backlash and create fodder for Democrats to go on the attack.
But the White House pushed back on those reports, arguing Musk was talking only about cutting fraud.
“The Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,” the White House said in a press release. “President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again).”
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In addition, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report last week that Republicans can’t achieve their goal of slashing $2 trillion in federal spending over the next decade without cutting Medicaid….
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