| | | THE END OF tRUMP: Trump says he'll cut entitlements like Social Security and Medicare if reelected
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Mar 5, 2020, 6:11 PM
Trump said at a Fox News town hall forum that he was intending to reduce funding for Social Security and Medicare, two of the largest federal entitlement programs."Oh, we'll be cutting," he said. "We're also going to have growth like you've never seen before."The move would be a reversal from Trump's pledge to leave those programs untouched in a second term.
He previously expressed a willingness to reduce funding for Social Security and Medicare in a second term. President Trump said at a Fox News town hall forum that he intended to cut entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Trump was asked during the interview about the $23 trillion national debt, which has continued surging under his watch. He campaigned on 2016 on wiping it out but instead passed laws like the 2017 tax cuts, which piled more onto it.
At the town hall, Fox News host Martha MacCallum told the president that if "you don't cut something in entitlements, you will never really deal with the debt," and Trump immediately responded.
"Oh, we'll be cutting," he said to the Scranton, Pennsylvania, audience. "We're also going to have growth like you've never seen before."
The comments appear to be a reversal from Trump's promise to leave the two largest federal government programs untouched in a second term. In a CNBC interview last month, Trump expressed a willingness to cut funding for both programs.
"At the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look," he told CNBC's Joe Kernen. |
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