(The Washington Post)
Glenn Kessler March 15 3:00 AM
“It is unbelievable the Trump budget calls for $1.5 trillion cut in Medicaid, $850 billion cut in Medicare.”
— Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), remarks at a news conference, March 12, 2019
“$800 billion in Medicare cuts and this is, as we know, after the president has said over and over again he wouldn’t cut Medicare and yet that’s in his budget.”
— Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), remarks at the same news conference, March 12, 2019
“The American people have now seen what Democrats in Congress plan to do with seniors’ health care. They’ve looked on in total disbelief as the majority voted again and again to slash Medicare by nearly half a trillion dollars.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in a floor speech, Dec. 9, 2009
“It is Orwellian in the extreme for them to sit there and argue that $500 billion in cuts to Medicare are not cuts to Medicare.”
— McConnell, remarks at a news conference, Sept. 24, 2009
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