Image: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, D.C.Andrew Harnik / Getty Images

Sasha Abramsky of Truthout reports: “Last week, at a private Easter lunch, Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic saying that with the country at war, the federal government should offload Medicaid, Medicare, and child care expenditures onto the states. “We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” the MAGA leader said. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”

Offloading vast medical expenses onto the states, the president acknowledged, would pressure states to raise their taxes, but that’s simply the price of doing war for Trump. For someone who campaigned on a cast-iron promise to strengthen Medicare and not start “new wars,” it was a stark U-turn that may put the health care access of tens of millions of Americans at risk…”

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