We are hearing that and we have now seen that the Senate is considering further cuts to Medicaid to try to offset more of the cost of their tax cuts. And to make matters worse, As written in the House, the bill will trigger more than $500 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare because the Republicans explode the deficit. There is a law that's called pay as you go and that says if you increase the the deficit you trigger what amounts to about a 4% cut for various programs. (08:36–08:49)
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Asserts that the bill will trigger $500 billion in Medicare cuts due to deficit increase.
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