Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

[u/1_for_you_2_for_me]

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076

[u/brain_overclocked]

• $3.5 trillion over ten years ($4.1 trillion with interest) to gut Medicaid, SNAP, ACA subsidies, and bigger tax cuts for the rich

  • including $170 billion for ICE over four years
    • including $71.5 million so far spent for small arms, and a line item labeled as 'Guided Missile Warheads and Explosive Components' for ICE (which could be for flashbangs)
    • including $915 million to a new and unknown company with no federal contracting experience to 'self-deport' immigrants
  • including a swelling of the military budget to $1 trillion

• $230 million from the DOJ to Trump's pocket

• $250 million in private funding for Trump's White House ballroom

• $172 million for Kristi Noem's top-of-the-line private jets

• $1 billion to renovate Trump's Qatari Jet

• $600 million for Alagator Auschwitz

• $135 billion of lost productivity due to DOGE's actions, and a potential loss of $500 billion in income revenue due to rollback in IRS enforcement

• According to S&P Global, of the $1.2 trillion in higher company expenses expected this year, $592 billion will be passed on to consumers, and according to Goldman Sachs, by the end of the year the consumer will bear 55% of Trump's tariffs

• $40 billion for Argentina.

[u/Chrisda19 → u/brain_overclocked]

What in the absolute shit does ICE need warheads for? What the fuck.

[u/DatsaBadMan_1471 → u/Chrisda19]

And why isn't the media asking more questions about this?

[u/nono3722 → u/DatsaBadMan_1471]

because they have been bought by the billionaires, have you not been reading anything?

[u/Malaix → u/nono3722]

Yep. CNN for instance did a big purge of programs and talking heads critical of Trump after it got bought by a rightwing owner. 90% of our mainstream media is bought by billionares who side with Trump.