Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) cast doubt over the Republican Party’s commitment to not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
The House passed its budget resolution this week, despite two Republicans voting against the legislation. It requires a $5 trillion increase in the federal debt ceiling but also $2 trillion in cuts. Pritzker said that this large windfall makes social programs a large target even though Speaker Mike Johnson these programs “will not take a hit.”
“The reality is that underneath that framework, they don’t want to mention what they are going after: $880 billion they have to find. They are only three places to find that much money all at once: Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security,” Pritzker said on Fox Network’s Fox News Sunday. “We don’t know exactly what they will attack but I think you’ve already seen that there is not a lot of respect for Social Security by this administration.”
Host Shannon Bream noted that in the resolution there is “not a line anywhere that talks about cutting the program.”
“For the record, the speaker and the president say it will be attached, and we will all be able to know that and track it in real-time,” Bream said.
AUDIT REVEALS PRITZKER MASSIVELY UNDERESTIMATED COST OF PROGRAMS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
This comes after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it will no longer give states federal dollars to fund portions of their Medicaid programs that have nothing to do with providing health services to low-income Americans, such as internet services and housekeeping.
Medicaid provides health insurance coverage to about 79 million Americans and costs $584 billion in only federal dollars in 2024.
