medicare s very existence up for a vote every five years. same with social security and medicaid. some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. the maga republicans in congress are wanting they still want to cut medicaid. dana: today s new york times the president writes my plan to extend medicare for another generation says if the maga republicans get their way seniors will pay higher out-of-pocket costs on prescriptions drugs and insulin. deficit higher and the only winner is big pharma. how will republicans react? it is totally not true. they are not making social security and medicare a fight on the debt limit. the budget they are looking at uses medicaid and other easier to go entitlements mandatory programs and discretionary spending to get to balance. we knowed to reform the programs over time. if you care about these programs and budget cutter the most important thing is to make
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this very difficult position the paul ryan has been in since donald trump became the republican nominee for president and then present drop. he is a very different person than paul ryan, the president is, both temperament and in many cases ideological. paul ryan is a budget cutter and an entitlement reformer and the president campaigned against entitlement reform so paul ryan he said to walk a fine line to get along with the president and do not necessarily always back to the tone he has taken and at the same time for the president which is alienated some of that never trump who revered paul ryan. he is in a difficult box and i think we saw several times in the interview him trying to walk that line. rick: certainly different styles and apparently different opinions on many of these key issues. absolutely. i think paul ryan deserves credit for being a republican
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