Donald Trump has requested $8.6 billion ($8,600,000,000.00) from Congress to finance his look-how-macho-I-am, completely unnecessary, wall on our southern border.
In the same budget request, Mr. Trump proposed significant cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, despite having promised, during the 2016 campaign, that he would preserve those programs. Preserve apparently has nothin' to do with it, as far as Trump is concerned. Over a decade, his new budget would reduce funding for Medicare by an estimated $800 billion, and support for Medicaid by more than $200 billion.
But the Deal-Maker-in-Chief didn't stop there. He also hopes to spend $26 billion less on Social Security programs, including a $10 billion cut to the Social Security
Disability Insurance program.
These costs added together would buy 120 walls in the Trump alternate universe. At $410.00 per person per year of taxpayer dollars, that amount would cover estimated Medicare costs for about 2 million 439 thousand Americans.
Reminds me of former Representative Alan Grayson's description of Republicans' health care plan ...
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