Daily Wire host: “Trump promised he was not going to cut Social Security and Medicare. He's gonna have to do that.”
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From the May 5, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Andrew Klavan Show
ANDREW KLAVAN (HOST): A group of people who are also not doing anything along with the media and along with businesses who are all complaining about making this transition so we can protect ourselves from China, is Congress. They're — obviously, Congress is at work on the big, beautiful bill, and that is a wonderful thing.
But Kim Strassel — who had a great piece, I think it was I think it was today, actually, saying that as as Congress pushes forward on the big beautiful Trump economic bill, it has to be put in place for his overall plan to work. It has to — you have to cut things in order to cut taxes. So if you cut taxes, you're gonna — you'll ultimately make more money. But if you cut taxes, you also have to cut spending.
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This is what the Democrats know, that the Republicans won't admit, that once you give Republicans money, they won't give it back. Start Obamacare, they won't let you repeal it.
All of these things — as they always say, conservatives basically conserve what the liberals do, what the left does. Trump wants to change that. The Congress won't do it. They're gonna have to do it.
Medicaid outlays have increased by 51% since 2019. The program is outpacing even Social Security and Medicare pumped up by state scams, Biden era waivers in the program's expansions to populations it was never meant to cover, yet Republicans are balking at any reforms.
And, you know, this is a problem. Trump promised he was not going to cut Social Security and Medicare. He's gonna have to do that. But Republicans believe in cutting, but they're not going to cut anything.