President Biden will head to Virginia Beach, Virginia, Tuesday, where he will deliver a speech accusing Republicans of putting health care programs “on the chopping block” ahead of the rollout of his own budget proposal.
The president’s remarks will come as Congress and the White House are negotiating spending priorities ahead of this summer’s deadline to raise the debt ceiling. House Republicans, in their new majority, are insisting that the Democratic-controlled Senate and Biden agree to cut spending before Congress approves raising the debt limit past $31.4 trillion.
However, Democrats are accusing Republicans of making hypocritical demands, pointing to GOP tax cut proposals they say have added trillions to the debt and asserting that the only way to balance the budget under the Republicans’ plan is to slash popular entitlement programs like Medicaid.
White House officials said Biden will make this case in Virginia, where he will speak about the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. Biden will argue that the GOP tax cut agenda would add over $3 trillion to the national debt, meaning that if Republicans are serious in their demands to balance the budget, they have committed themselves to trillions in program cuts, “repealing the Affordable Care Act and slashing Medicaid.” Read more…
