If Musk and Trump want to cut federal spending by $2 trillion, they'll have to come for Social Security and Medicare

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Which leaves two items: Social Security and Medicare.
59% : According to U.S. Treasury data, Social Security ($1.46 trillion), Medicare ($874 billion), debt interest ($882 billion), defense ($874 billion) and veterans ($325 billion) account for $4.4 trillion, or 65%, of this year's $6.75 trillion federal budget.
53% : Or you could spend that money on Medicaid.
45% : What should we still pay for?Nursing-home and home-health costs for the elderly (which are currently paid by Medicaid, not Medicare)?
43% : Trump has said he wants to make Musk "Secretary of Cost-Cutting," while the world's richest man says he'd run a "Department of Government Efficiency."
36% : Trump plans to increase defense spending, not cut it.
33% : Especially as Trump has already promised huge tax cuts, which the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates will cost an average of $900 billion extra per year over the next decade.
31% : Trump has said he won't cut Social Security or Medicare.
20% : Or they are planning on cutting Social Security and Medicare - despite Donald Trump's protests to the contrary.

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