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President Donald Trump uses false claims to promote his massive interior policy bill.
In a white house speech Thursday, Trump falsely claimed Medicaid is “left the same” by the bill. In fact, both the version of the legislation that was Passed about the house in May And the latest version now be planned by the Senate contain Medicaid policy changes and major funding reductions that should lead to millions of people Lose insurance coverage.
Trump also wrongly claimed that the bill includes “no tax” on social security benefits. The legislation would not really hold the promise of Trump campaign to completely eliminate taxes on social security benefits, although it temporarily gives the elderly significantly more important tax deduction. And Trump wrongly claimed that “there will be a tax increase of 68%” if the congress does not approve the bill; There is no credible estimate of something near an increase of 68%.
A warning: since the Congress has not yet sent a final bill to the Trump office, it is possible that the legislators will bring major changes before the Senate vote. But Trump’s claims are inaccurate with regard to the version approved by the room and the version that the senators are considering.
Asked for comments on the president’s false allegations, the White House provided an answer to the record which presented the benefits of the bill but did not defend Trump’s specific assertions.
“The only one, great and beautiful bill is full of politicians that the American people elected President Trump – and the Republicans of the Congress – to be implemented,” said White House spokesperson, Abigail Jackson, in an email on Friday.
Here is a verification of the facts.
The bill and Medicaid
Trump said in his speech on Thursday that people “will not feel” discounts of spending included in the bill. He then said“Your Medicaid is left alone. It is left the same thing.”
Facts first:: Trump’s assertion on Medicaid is false. The version of the bill which was adopted by the House last month would make several significant modifications to Medicaid and reduce federal funding for the hundreds of billions of dollars. The provisions of Medicaid of the legislation are expected To lead to an unwelcome of 7.8 million people more in 2034, according to estimates by the Budget Office of the non-partisan congress.
Medicaid offers health insurance coverage to more than 71 million Low -income Americans, including children, disabled people, the elderly, parents and other adults.
The House bill would require certain valid adults without dependent children to work, volunteer or participate in other activities for at least 80 hours per month to keep their coverage. It would also promulgate several provisions which would make it more difficult to re -enroll or re -enroll it in Medicaid. And this would reduce federal support to certain states which would offer coverage funded by the State to undocumented immigrants.
Whatever the merits of these policies, these are major changes would not be Leave Medicaid “the same thing”. All in all, the changes would reduce federal support for the program of approximately $ 800 billion over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office is projects; The version of the Senate of the bill has not yet been finalized but contains many similar provisions.
Asked about Trump’s assertion that Medicaid is “left the same” by the bill, a White House official provided substantive equipment who did not try to corroborate the complaint. On the contrary, the White House defended the modifications proposed by the MEDICAID bill – claiming, for example, that the majority of people estimated by the Congressal Budget Office would lose Medicaid under the bill “are valid adults aged 19 to 64 who have no dependents and work less than 20 hours per week”.
The bill and social security
Asset campaign In 2024 on a promise of more taxes on social security benefits. Thursday, he said The bill is “so good” because it includes “hundreds of things” that will benefit Americans – including “no tax”. He then said Friday, in an article on social networks that the legislation left the Republicans “on the precipice” of the delivery of achievements, in particular “no tax on Social Security for our elderly”.
Facts first:: Trump’s assertion on social security is false. The bill would temporarily strengthen the standard tax deduction of the elderly, but it would not completely eliminate taxes on social security benefits.
The version approved at home would give people 65 years and over an increase of $ 4,000 to their standard deduction from 2025 to 2028, whether or not they receive social security payments. The Senate version Provide a boost of $ 6,000 to the elderly. In both versions, the advantage would begin to eliminate people with revenues of more than $ 75,000 and couples with revenues of more than $ 150,000.
This measure is a decision in the direction of Trump’s campaign promise to end taxes on social security benefits; The legislators could not eliminate these taxes under the rules of budgetary reconciliation, which the Republicans use to advance the package by a simple majority vote and without democratic support in the Senate. But whatever the reason, Trump’s pretension that the bill includes “no tax” on social security, the period, remains incorrect.
When asked for comments on Trump’s complaint, the White House said in its training equipment that, under the bill, the vast majority of the elderly receiving social security income would not pay any tax on this income. Trump’s own statement was greater.
The invoice and the taxes
Trump warned the consequences of the authorization of the Temporary tax reductions of his 2017 tax law to expire rather than making them permanent by adopting this new bill – and he invoked a figure that he has frequently deployed when promoting the 2025 legislation.
“If the bill does not pass, there will be a 68%tax increase,” he said. “Think about it: 68%.”
Trump Again repeated The “68%” warning during Friday remarks at the White House.
Facts first:: Trump’s claim is false. There is no credible basis for the affirmation that the fact of not adopting the bill would result in a tax increase of 68%. An analysis of the reflection group of the non -partisan tax policy center find These taxes would increase an average of around 7.5% in 2026 if Trump’s bill did not pass. Asked for CNN’s comments, the White House did not try to treat the “68%” figure even under the cover of anonymity; He also provided no comments to other Verification of facts Earlier in the month.
In their articles, Politifact And Factcheck.org noted that it is possible that Trump wrongly describes a different estimate of the tax policy center. The reflection group find That around 64% of households would pay more taxes in 2026 if the temporary reductions in the 2017 law on individual income tax and inheritance tax were authorized to expire.
It is clearly not the same as to say that Americans will face a tax increase by 64% (or 68%). And it was not a unique shift in the language by the president.