selling the pitch that this is an effort to undercut th movement here. this is not a prosecution abou trying to defraud the taxpayer over medicare taxes here that is two in the weeds here. and for donald trump this is about the conservative mag movement here that he ha helped construct let s be very clear, you see the response from villages int the usual response from one of mcdonald s, you see th response from kevin mccarthy it echoes exactly what we sa after the mar-a-lago searc warrant was executed in august exactly what we saw after th two impeachments of donald trump here and for the republican party they ve lifted up donald trump time and time again, you go to iowa, chuck grassley chuck grassley is a senior statesman from the state o iowa and yet time and agai they defended him. when i was in iowa just a fe weeks ago when this was really the aid to percolate again
meeting. of course, president biden also would very much like to turn the chapter on the u.s./brazil relationship, obviously he didn t exactly have a close relationship with the former brazil president, jair bolsonaro. lots going on this week for the white house. mj lee, thanks so much. in his state of the union speech of course president biden s statement and the heckling that it triggered that some republicans want to get rid of social security and medicare has continued to be a major part of his messaging this week on the road. i know that a lot of republicans their dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this, if that s your dream, i m your nightmare. so what are the facts here? let s bring in daniel day for a fact check.
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actually does is save the government and seniors money by reducing the amount of money that the government has to pay to pharmaceutical companies for prescription drugs. that is pure savings, is the not a benefit cut. i spoke to experts about this this week, a vanderbilt university professor said that framing this as a cut to benefits is, quote, nonsense, again, she is a vanderbilt professor. another expert at the kaiser family foundation told me that the congressional budget office said that prescription drug provisions in the law will reduce the federal deficit by $237 billion. this is savings to the federal government and medicare from lowering what medicare pays for prescription drugs. this is not the same thing as a $237 billion cut to medicare. so debunked last year and again this year. these are important policy debates, they are real debates. it would be nice to have them without outright lies, but that s where we are. daniel dale, thanks so much. also politics. good luck.
that s based it seems on rick scott s memo talking about sun setting all federal programs here. what are the facts? how many republicans actually want or are open to cutting social security and medicare? jim, the answer is that we don t know exactly. so even before the republicans protested president biden s comments during that state of the union we know that speaker mccarthy had insisted that during this debt ceiling fight cuts to social security and medicare are off the table. other republicans had said the same. you still have a smattering saying we do need to deal with these programs and we know last year the republican study committee which is a group within the republican house caucus well over half of that caucus is part of the group, released and alternative budget that did include proposed cuts to medicare and social security. now, when it comes to senator scott s proposal i think president biden could be clearer that this sunset proposal, proposal to sunset all federal law