Fox host Brian Kimeade supports cuts to Medicaid: “People get addicted to the free money”
Kilmeade: “Medicaid got way too big”
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From the May 21, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): If we were in Washington right now, in certain rooms we would hear murmuring in the Rules Committee because they are hammering through and trying to get the bill ready to be voted for on the floor by tomorrow. If it has the current structure it has right now and let's say it gets through, what should American people know? How is this going to affect them?
JACKIE DEANGELIS (FOX BUSINESS HOST): Well the 2017 tax cuts that Trump implemented before, will be extended. So you won't be getting a tax hike, which is what would happen if we didn't see this bill pass. I'm still sort of on the sidelines watching this, and I'm saying I'd like to see deeper spending cuts. The flip side to that argument is with all the investment that's coming in this country, we'll grow our way out of some of the trouble that we're in. You have to have a little faith to believe that that will actually happen. But again, when it comes to fraud, waste, and abuse, which the President talked about yesterday in a post dealing with Medicaid specifically, there are things that we can cut. There is a lot of abuse in the system.
KILMEADE: Right, and Medicaid got way too big because Barack Obama made Obamacare and all those states got the free money —
DEANGELIS: Correct.
KILMEADE: And now all of the sudden Medicaid doesn't look like it was supposed to and it is 95% financed by the federal government, it's supposed to be a state program.
DEANGELIS: Yes. And the longer we leave it that way, the more permanent that becomes.
KILMEADE: Right because people get addicted to the free money.
DEANGELIS: Correct.