Biden finds a new target in his war on GOP budget cutters
by Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter |
March 06, 2023 05:48 AM
After charging that Republicans were chasing cuts to Medicare and Social Security, President Joe Biden has a new GOP target.
Biden is lashing out at a Trump administration policy-whisperer who is out of government and advising lawmakers on where to slash discretionary spending as Republicans and Democrats prepare for bruising negotiations over the debt limit.
Warning about the threat to entitlements, Biden lambasted “MAGA Republicans” as “a different breed of cat” before training his sights on “the former Trump budget director.”
“Healthcare hangs in the balance,” Biden said in remarks in Virginia, with “deep cuts” on the horizon that the president said could lead to millions of seniors, disabled Americans, and children losing Medicaid services.
In a tweet that evening, Biden again slammed former President Donald Trump’s top White House budget aide.
The offensive marks the latest front in the White House’s fight against so-called MAGA Republicans, a charge Biden heaped on Democrats’ opponents in the lead-up to last year's midterm elections and that the president’s aides suggest could be replicated in the lead-up to 2024.
Former White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought now leads the Center for Renewing America, a think tank advising congressional Republicans on a new budget plan and other policy.
Republicans are expected to use the negotiations to draw concessions from Biden. This has prompted the president to unleash a preemptive onslaught.
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