It looks like President Donald Trump is going back on campaign promises – surprising no one familiar with his track record of grift in the process. He said at a private lunch on Wednesday, April 1, that Medicaid, Medicare and day care were too costly for the United States to foot the bill.

“We’re a big country,” Trump said. “We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”

While running for reelection in 2024, he had said that his administration would help alleviate the costs of childcare and fund Medicaid and Medicare. Instead, Republicans have done the opposite by slashing Medicaid funding in the congressional budget. They have no plan to make childcare more affordable for their constituents.

No, Republicans would rather incinerate billions of dollars by going into a war that no one wants instead of doing things that would benefit Americans. For all their talk of “America first,” it sure seems........

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