MEDICARE...NOT Medicaid...faces $536 billion in cuts over nine years because of Trump's Big Bullsh*t Bill [View all]

Aug. 21, 2025, 2:49 PM EDT
By Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.

An existing law called “sequestration” makes mandatory cuts when new laws explode the debt past a certain point. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that the massive, $4 trillion debt explosion from the Beautiful-for-Billionaires Law will trigger sequestration starting next year, resulting in $536 billion in cuts to Medicare over nine years. Republicans aren’t talking about that — they don’t want you to know. The Medicare cuts can be undone if Congress passes a law to do that; Republicans chose not to do that in their Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill, setting up impending Medicare cuts that would be devastating.

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