Medicare/Medicaid
2023
2023-02-08 During a State of the Union address, Biden was booed and heckled for predicting that Republicans would make Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
2025 January
2025-01-20 Page 465 of Project 2025 outlines a plan to increase Medicare Part D prescription prices and expose seniors to higher out-of-pocket expenses.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
2025 May
2025-05-30 When a constituent said, “people are going to die” because of heavy Medicaid cuts, Senator Joni Ernst responded, “We are all going to die”.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1036832908023449
2025-05-31 Joni Ernst filmed herself mocking critics of Medicaid cuts, “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
2025 October
2025-10-01 During the shutdown Republicans falsely claimed Democrats were trying to give free Medicare to immigrants.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/
https://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/american-rescue-plan/
2026 April
2026-04-03 Trump made deep cuts to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and recommended cutting it entirely while simultaneously demanding $1.5T in defense spending to support Israels war. He stated, “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”.
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSXxofF5lJg&t=33s
https://www.ncoa.org/article/energy-assistance-beyond-liheap/
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5815067-trump-budget-liheap-energy-prices/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5814887-15t-defense-budget-request/
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 the administration would withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from California and other Democratic-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/