The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney said It is true that President’s budget blueprint lacks social security and Medicare, the truth is management is not denying the issue and President is going to keep his campaign promises on the issues.
As Donald Trump had said during his campaign trail “he would not cut the Social Security or Medicare.”
“The president is absolutely going to keep the promises he made on the campaign trail,” Mulvaney said on Thursday.
White House Budget Chief: Trump ‘absolutely going to keep’ promises on Social Security, Medicare
Mulvaney said spending that impacts programs such as Social Security and Medicare was not addressed in this blueprint “because that’s not what this budget is.” He added that a blueprint like this that deals with “top-line spending numbers” would not include spending related to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
“This is the discretionary part of the budget, half of which as you know is defense, the other half is everything else…” he said.
“Just because it’s not here, doesn’t mean we’re dodging the issue,” Mulvaney said.
The budget would incur some seriously hefty cuts to Federal programs like the EPA, the State Department, USAID and would increase defense spending, the boarder wall and the process of deportations.
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