cut medicare, medicaid, and social security. he lied. his budget calls for a trillion and a half dollar cut to medicaid over ten years, 845 billion to medicare, and billions more in cuts for social security. now, some of you may remember that when trump ran for president, he said, you know what, we are going to have a tax plan that will not benefit wealthy people. remember that? he lied again. 83% of his benefits in that tax plan go to the top 1% at the end of ten years. during his campaign for president, trump said that he would drain the swamp.
their economic life and that should be the north star and say how that would apply to different policies and might make you realize something like paid family medical leave is really a very important issue because part of your economic dignity is being able to be there for your child or be there for a sick parent, that s pretty important. health care is a right, not just important to the person who has the health care, think about a patient, what could hurt your economic dignity more than a sense you had an ill child and you could not care for them or you had to bankrupt your family trying. it s interesting that you made the point about what do you want to be remembered for. what do you want to look back on. when donald trump puts together a budget like this with his team and he cuts medicare which is health care for the elderly, by $845 billion, medicaid, by $1.5 trillion, for the poorest people in this country, when the safety net cuts are slashed 13%, snap
cycle is going to be about. so despite i want to talk to you now about the president s budget. because despite his promises to protect medicare, his budget would cut billions of dollars from the program, $845 billion from the program. and it also makes deep cuts in medicaid, it cuts social security. you re on the senate finance committee. the dollar amount, this is a wish list. it s not going to stay the same when all of this is said and done, but what s your reaction to the president as he does make his priorities clear hero po here posing cuts to medicare? this is something he said he would never do. he said he would never cut medicare, and his budget cuts both. anti-opioid epidemic grants,
international golf club in west palm beach and the plaque naming him men s club champion for 2018. we just talked about this a moment ago, which, surprise, not exactly true either. golf.com points out that the president didn t actually play in that tournament. he challenged the real winner to a made-up nine-hole duel with no officials, won that, and went on to say that they could be co-champions, a fact that s entirely missing from that plaque. like i said, when you ll lie about anything, you ll lie about everything. and there are plenty of big lies coming from this president, lies about things that really matter to a whole lot of americans, like medicare. the 2020 budget the president delivered to the house today would reduce medicare spending by $845 billion over ten years.
big things. take a look at his locker. this is a locker at trump international golf club in west palm beach and the plaque naming him men s club champion for 2018. we just talked about this a moment ago which, surprise, not exactly true either. golf.com points out that the president didn t actually play in that tournament. he challenged the real winner to a made-up nine-hole duel with no officials, won that, and went on to say that they could be co-champions, a fact that s entirely missing from that plaque. like i said, when you ll lie about anything, you ll lie about everything. and there are plenty of big lies coming from this president, lies about things that really matter to a whole lot of americans like medicare, the 2020 budget the president delivered to the house today would reduce medicare spending by $845 billion over