Medicare/Medicaid
2023
2023-02-08 During a State of the Union address, Biden was booed and heckled after he warned that Republicans would make cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
2025 January
2025-01-20 Page 465 of Project 2025 outlines a plan to increase Medicare Part D prescription prices.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
2025 May
2025-05-30 During an Iowa town hall, Senator Joni Ernst responded to a comment about Medicaid cuts by incorrectly telling constituents the government is paying $1.4M to illegal immigrants in Medicaid. When someone in the crowd yelled out “People are going to die” Erns retorted, “We are all going to die”.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1036832908023449
2025-05-31 After public criticism for her calloused remarks on Medicaid cuts, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst made a sarcastic video while trolling through a graveyard, adding, “I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes we are all going to perish from this earth. So, I apologize, and I’m really really glad that I didn’t have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well…” and then ended it with, “…for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ”.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gqdwSLKE554
2026 April
2026-04-03 The Trump administration demanded $1.5T in defense spending to support Israels war and pay for the “Golden Dome”, while making further cuts to domestic necessities like heating and cooling and food. During an event at the White House Trump said, “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual…things. They can do it on a State basis. You can’t do it on a Federal – we have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country”. In other words, Trump wants to funnel American taxpayer dollars into funding Israel’s power-grabbing war in the Middle East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0IV2JT26Ls&list=WL&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEURbAHBPvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GFcmIVM3Yc
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/donald-trump-iran-war-daycare
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5814887-15t-defense-budget-request/
2026 May
2026-05-01 Nebraska was the first red state to roll out Medicaid work requirements.
https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/WorkRequirements.aspx
https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-implements-new-medicaid-work-requirements/71189141
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/nebraska-medicaid-work-requirements-launch-first-state/818992/
2026-05-14 JD Vance announced Trump would withhold $1.3B in Medicaid reimbursement from California and cited other Democrat-led states like New York and Hawaii. Senator Alex Padilla cited “political retribution”.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSu-7HlUE-/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-home-health
2026-05-15 JD Vance and Dr. Oz announced a six-month freeze on all new Medicaid hospice enrollments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW27nXvJ6ls&list=WL&index=6
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-enrollment-hospice-fraud-trump-administration/