President Donald Trump has warned the U.S. government “can’t take care” of daycare, Medicaid nor Medicare costs, suggesting states should fund the provisions while the federal government focus on “military protection.”
“We’re fighting wars,” Trump told an audience for an Easter lunch at the White House on Wednesday, according to a video posted and then removed on the White House’s official website, “”we can’t take care of daycare.”
The U.S. and Israel launched military strikes on Iran on Februray 28. Axios reported earlier this week that Republicans are weighing federal health spending cuts for a budget bill with $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement.
“We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” Trump said Wednesday.
“We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare. And they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up. But we It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid,Medicare, all these individual things.
“They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. We have to guard the country.”
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