Fox host Brian Kilmeade: Current Medicaid levels are “unaffordable, unsustainable”
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From the May 5, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO HOST): Couple of things, on Medicaid some — that's where the rubber hits the road. Because Barack Obama and Joe Biden expanded the people who are eligible for Medicaid by so many that it's unaffordable, unsustainable. It's like the number one expenditure that the federal government's got to pay — it's supposed to be state aid. Pay the states. So that's where the big battle is going to be.
Just a quick thing on the MAGA movement. It's very similar to Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson became more powerful after he left office because James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Sam Houston in Texas — he had like four or five guys who went on to become president. They kept leaning back on Jackson. Every time something needed to be passed through Congress they would go back to Jackson out of power. I could absolutely see Trump at Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster —
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): 100%
KILMEADE: Trying to break log jams in 2029 or 2032 or whatever it was.