.MaddowBlog: In reversal, Trump puts post-2020 entitlement cuts on the table
“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Donald Trump declared in 2015. “Every other Republican’s going to cut, and even if they wouldn’t, they don’t know what to do because they don’t know where the money is. I do. I do.”
Now, however, he’s saying something different. Consider the exchange when CNBC’s Joe Kernen sat down with the president this morning and broached the subject.TRUMP: At some point they will be…. And at the right time, we will take a look at that. Kernen followed up, asking about Medicare and Trump’s willingness to “do some of the things that you said you wouldn’t do in the past.”This is obviously the sort of thing that raises any number of questions – the details matter – and there are no available answers.
And in case that weren’t quite enough, there’s a larger context that includes Larry Kudlow, the director of the Trump White House’s National Economic Council, arguing in the not-too-distant past that the president’s team is prepared to look at entitlement “reforms” – which is a common euphemism for cuts.
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