Politico December 13, 2024
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UNPACKING DOGE CLAIMS — Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leader of President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, is eyeing Medicare and Medicaid as potential sources to cut federal spending by trillions, Ben reports.
The goal of DOGE — an outside group that will recommend spending and regulation cuts — is a tall task that would likely involve cutting entitlement programs to extract significant savings. Ramaswamy said last week on CNBC that “hundreds of billions of dollars in savings” could come from just “basic program integrity measures” in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
He’s generally in the right ballpark for the numbers. HHS estimated that, in fiscal year 2024, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for about $86 billion in...
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