GOP Senator's Medicare Cut Gaffe Sparks Social Media Outrage
Source: Huff Post
Apr 1, 2025, 03:36 PM EDT
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) made a slip of the tongue during a CNBC interview Tuesday that has many people on social media wondering if he just said the quiet part out loud. It happened after host Rebecca Quick asked the Louisiana Republican and former physician how his party planned to pay for the trillion-dollar tax cuts President Donald Trump desires.
After Quick noted that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the cuts would also cut revenue by as much as $11.2 trillion over the next decade, Cassidy insisted that the president doesn’t want to touch Medicare and Medicaid. “What he means is not don’t go after things which was inappropriate spending.
He’s saying, don’t cut benefits to beneficiaries,” he said, before suggesting those programs need to be analyzed with an approach similar to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. “Let’s bring that approach not to just what DOGE is doing, discretionary spending, but let’s look at Medicare.”
Then he made an inconvenient slip of the tongue when he rhetorically asked, “Is there some way that we can cut Medicare so that it’s, excuse me, reform Medicare so the benefits stay the same, but that its less expensive, more efficient?” He added, “I would say that there is, and that’s where our opportunity lies.”
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