Don’t look now, but the Republican tax bill will cut $25 billion from Medicare next year

Don’t look now, but the Republican tax bill will cut $25 billion from Medicare next year

As both candidate and president, Donald Trump promised not to cut either Medicaid or Medicare, the government health-insurance programs for the poor and the elderly. The Republican party’s tax reform proposal, however, looks set to break that promise. Republican leaders want their tax bill to end the individual mandate, the requirement for all Americans to…