Will Trump Cut Medicare and Social Security?
Mick Mulvaney, the nominee for budget director, told senators Tuesday that he’d recommend significant changes to entitlement programs—even if they contradict the president’s campaign pledges.
One of the most consequential decisions President Trump will make in the coming weeks and months is whether to pursue an overhaul of entitlement programs that Republicans have long championed.
Trump pledged repeatedly on the campaign trail not to cut Medicare or Social Security. But once his nominee for budget director, Representative Mick Mulvaney, takes office, he plans to advise the president that keeping that promise threatens the programs’ survival.
“It’s going to take difficult decisions today in order to avoid nearly impossible ones tomorrow,” Mulvaney told the Senate Budget Committee, arguing that “fundamental changes” are needed to rein in a national debt that has grown to nearly $20 trillion.
During his
