Here are the facts: A new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that Republicans’ reckless tax handout won’t be possible without putting health care for millions of American kids, families, and seniors on the chopping block. 

No matter what desperate spin Republicans try to sell to the American people, the reality is they’re laying the groundwork to slash Medicaid and put Medicare on the chopping block to fund Trump’s billionaire tax handouts. 

Washington Post: GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds

By Jacob Bogage

• Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on taxes and immigration unless they cut Medicaid or Medicare benefits, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper reported Wednesday.
  
• Trump and the GOP are seeking to extend provisions of the president’s 2017 tax cut law — which would cost nearly $5 trillion

• More than 60 million Americans rely on each program for medical coverage, retirement security, survivor benefits and unemployment caused by disability. Cutting benefits in any of them could be politically toxic.
  
• But the House GOP’s budget, which passed last week in a hairline vote, asks the committee responsible for federal health-care spending to find at least $880 billion in savings over 10 years. And the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that reducing costs that much won’t be possible without cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
  
• That has provoked anxiety among some lawmakers who represent large numbers of people who rely on Medicaid that cuts to the program that are on the horizon.