In response to Trump’s MAGA minions sharing plans to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: 

“Donald Trump’s out-of-touch allies are ready to help him gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — just like he tried to do in every single one of his budgets during his first term. Trump and the rest of his MAGA Republican Party will always put tax handouts for billionaires ahead of seniors’ hard-earned benefits, and Democrats are ready to keep fighting back against the GOP’s attempts to leave America’s seniors out in the cold.”

NEW: Donald Trump’s allies – including GOP members of Congress and his billionaire appointees like Elon Musk – are doubling down on Republicans’ attacks against Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Rep. Rich McCormick: “We’re gonna have to have some hard decisions. We’re gonna have to bring in the Democrats to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on.”

Trump: “Rich McCormick will be an outstanding Representative of Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.

“He has a long record of accomplishments …

“Rich McCormick has my Complete and Total endorsement. He will never let you down!”  

Elon Musk: “Interesting thread 

“[Quote tweet from Sen. Mike Lee] Of all the deceptive sales techniques the U.S. government has used on the American people, one of them—the Social Security Act—gets far too little attention. Buckle up because this is a wild ride. …

“The history of the Social Security Act—which sadly must include the deceptive manner in which it was sold to the American people—is yet another reason why America’s century-long era of progressive government must be brought to a close.” 

Trump has a long history of repeatedly trying to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — and plans to gut these programs in his second term.  

Washington Post: “Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says”

Forbes: “Trump Floats ‘Cutting’ Spending On Entitlements Like Social Security And Medicare”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Floats Cuts to Social Security and Medicare”

CNN: “Trump now says he’s open to entitlement cuts, including Medicare”

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “President Trump has made clear that his goal remains to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including its expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults, and to impose rigid caps on the federal government’s Medicaid spending.”

Washington Post: “His avowed stance, however, is at odds with Trump’s own record as president: Each of his White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs.”

Vox: “Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.”

Trump’s FY18, FY19, FY20, and FY21 budgets each proposed billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security programs.

2019 and 2020: Trump proposed budgets that included hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare.

Vance: “[Social Security and Medicare] are the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity.”

Trump chose Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, suggesting that Oz will help the Trump-Vance administration gut Medicare.

Garrett Haake: “Buried in Oz announcement is this line which suggests cuts to Medicare may be on the table:

“‘He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.’”

The Lever: “[Dr. Oz’s] program could move seniors and most Americans into private insurance plans that have been raising premiums and denying roughly one in ten medical claims, according to a recent government report finding that the plans frequently refuse to cover services required by Medicare.

“To pay for his privatization plan, Oz has proposed a 20 percent payroll tax, which would ultimately transfer money from workers to the Republican Party’s private insurance donors that have been reporting record profits while jacking up premiums.

“In other words, Oz himself wants to increase taxes on lower- and middle-class Americans to fund his own version of a corporate-run, universal health care system — one that could come with high patient costs, continued barriers to care, and a windfall for the health insurance industry.”