GOP Senator’s Medicare Cut Gaffe Sparks Social Media Outrage | EUROtoday

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) made a slip of the tongue throughout a CNBC interview Tuesday that has many individuals on social media questioning if he simply stated the quiet half out loud.

It occurred after host Rebecca Quick requested the Louisiana Republican and former doctor how his celebration deliberate to pay for the trillion-dollar tax cuts President Donald Trump wishes.

After Quick famous that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the cuts would additionally minimize income by as a lot as $11.2 trillion over the following decade, Cassidy insisted that the president doesn’t wish to contact Medicare and Medicaid.

“What he means is not don’t go after things which was inappropriate spending. He’s saying, don’t cut benefits to beneficiaries,” he stated, earlier than suggesting these applications should be analyzed with an strategy much like Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

“Let’s bring that approach not to just what DOGE is doing, discretionary spending, but let’s look at Medicare.”

Then he made an inconvenient slip of the tongue when he rhetorically requested, “Is there some way that we can cut Medicare so that it’s, excuse me, reform Medicare so the benefits stay the same, but that its less expensive, more efficient?”

He added, “I would say that there is, and that’s where our opportunity lies.”

A spokesman for the senator insisted to HuffPost that “Cassidy wants to eliminate inefficiencies in Medicare and Medicaid Advantage,” however “as a doctor, his focus is improving health outcomes, which is why he unequivocally opposes benefit cuts.”

It’s doable that Cassidy supposed to say “reform” from the start, however many individuals on social media thought he truly made a gaffe, the time period used when a politician by accident tells the reality.

In addition, lots of Cassidy’s fellow celebration members appear fairly OK with making drastic cuts to applications like Medicare and Medicaid.

As a end result, many individuals accused Cassidy of claiming the quiet half out loud, together with two of his Senate colleagues.

Others additionally chimed in with their suspicions.