You could even leave Medicaid alone and still have $700 billion of expenditures this year that are above and beyond the inflationary increase from 2019. So I know CBO just came out and said you can't meet the House budget number without impacting or looking at Medicare and Medicaid. It's completely false. You can exempt all of those and still look at about a $700 billion amount. That's over the inflationary increase over 2019 spending. So, again, there's so much rhetoric. (16:19–16:29)
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Asserts that the CBO's statement about needing to impact Medicare and Medicaid to meet the House budget is false.
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