From HuffPost: Trump Officials Are Doing Everything They Can To Obscure The Actual Fallout Of His Tax Bill
They're trying to downplay Medicaid cuts — and the impact they'll have on millions of people.
By Li Zhou
In interviews on Sunday, Trump administration officials did everything they could to downplay the Medicaid cuts in the presdient’s massive tax bill, given the electoral backlash Republicans could face.
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that Democrats were trying to “infantilize the poor” by raising concerns that new work requirements for Medicaid would be burdensome and result in people losing their benefits. And during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett denied that many people would lose health coverage at all.