cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34782766
Brad Reed
Aug 15, 2025The only way to avoid these cuts, said the CBO, would be for Congress to pass “subsequent legislation that would offset the deficit increase, waive the recordation of the bill’s effects on the scorecard, or otherwise mitigate or eliminate the statutory requirements.”
The CBO said that these cuts could take as much as $45 billion out of Medicare for fiscal year 2026. What’s more, the amount cut from Medicare would increase in every subsequent year, resulting in total cuts of as much as $536 billion between 2026 and 2034.
Remember when the GOP freaked out about “death panels”???
They’re fine as long as it’s a Republican death panel. Those face-eating leopards are just for show. 🐆 🐆
They (the base) just pictured a Blah person doing it, and of course their elites were absolutely fucking lying about all of it.
As long as the base think it’s a white guy killing them or their grandparents or whatever, it’s all cool, especially if it “owns the libs”.
But this isn’t a death panel!
(This is removing the funding so they can’t even create a panel.)
Why automatic??? The billionaire tax breaks can also be cut to fund the budget, ya know?
What do you mean ‘why automatic’? Does Canada not automatically start applying laws when they’re passed?
