Commerce Secretary Calls For Slashing “Entitlements”

The Independent reports:

Despite promises on the campaign trail that his administration would not touch Social Security, and claiming that his Democratic rivals are the ones trying to end it, Trump and the world’s wealthiest man and his allies are trying to justify cuts to Social Security and federal health programs Medicare and Medicaid to come up with Musk’s target figure of more than $1 trillion in savings.

On Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News, recently confirmed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick hailed the work of Musk’s DOGE, which is “gonna cut a trillion dollars of waste fraud and abuse,” Lutnick said. “Think about it. We have almost $4 trillion of entitlements and no one has looked at it before,” he said. “You know Social Security is wrong, you know Medicare and Medicaid is wrong, so he’s going to cut one trillion,” Lutnick added.

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Told ya! Republicans can’t help themselves. Already trying to loot Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. https://t.co/4vcWCNzsLY

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) February 21, 2025