Republicans claim Biden cut Medicare by billions, but experts say that’s not the case – By ABC News Staff (MSN) / Mar 7, 2023
The fight between President Joe Biden and Republicans on Medicare and Social Security continues weeks after their fiery exchange at the State of the Union.
Biden has taken his message that some in the GOP want to implement cuts to the popular programs on the road, highlighting at nearly every opportunity a proposal by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to sunset all federal legislation every five years — which the Republican now claims was not intended for Social Security or Medicare.
Scott, in turn, has accused Biden of cutting billions of dollars from Medicare when he signed the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act into law last year. In an ad released after the State of the Union, Scott said Biden “just cut $280 billion from Medicare.”
