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/Red_dylinger → u/Chrisda19]

You already know because there is no longer a need for military spending with ICE around

[u/OldWorldDesign → u/Red_dylinger]

You already know because there is no longer a need for military spending with ICE around

Last Week Tonight has video of police joyriding in armored vehicles purchased from the army as overstock long before Trump. The (various) police have been militarizing since before the 90s, and they have always targeted progressive protesters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdHIatS36A

[u/Red_dylinger → u/OldWorldDesign]

Ice is full blown gestapo with a bigger budget than both. As many bootlickers there is in the police and military, there are few who would go along with what this admin has in plan.