DNC Rapid Response doesn’t hold back on Trump’s plan to “rip away retirement benefits, healthcare, and food assistance”

The United States’ electorate will be going to the ballot box in November to decide who will control the levers of power in Congress. Typically, the party of the whoever is president at the time of the Midterm Elections sees serious loses. With the narrow majorities Republicans currently hold, that could mean the Democrats have a chance to take over.

However, if the GOP maintains the gavel, House Speaker Mike Johnson says that they have plans for solving the national debt. But that would mean cuts to several federal popular programs which he says, “have to be adjusted and fixed.” This has drawn a strong response from the Democratic National Committee’s Rapid Response.

Trump and GOP plan to “rip away retirement benefits, healthcare, and food assistance”

Speaker Johnsons comments were made on the Moon Griffon Show broadcast on local Louisiana radio. “The reason we’re in trouble is because over 74% of federal spending is on autopilot, mandatory spending. That’s your entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and then things like Social Security,” he said. “They have to be adjusted and fixed. We have a plan to do that next year.”

The DNC Rapid Response was quick to point out that “Johnson has claimed that cuts to these critical programs are necessary to reduce the national debt, even though Donald Trump and Republicans’ ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is expected to add nearly $5 trillion to the debt because of its tax cuts for the rich.”

And this was despite the fact that that legislation implemented the largest cuts to Medicaid in the history of the program along with putting more restrictions on eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to offset those tax cuts. The Urban Institute says that as many as 10.1 million Americans could lose Medicaid coverage under the new work requirements and six-month redeterminations. SNAP participation is already down 9%, or 3.5 million people, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

“Donald Trump and his loyal foot soldiers in Congress aren’t even trying to hide their plans to gut programs that hardworking Americans rely on,” said DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer in a statement. “Trump and Republicans already made the largest cut to Medicaid in history, and now they are taking every opportunity to sell out working families and rip away retirement benefits, healthcare, and food assistance.”

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