White House Budget Director Russell Vought falsely asserted that no Medicaid cuts would be made to anyone in the Republican Budget bill that is headed to the Senate.
After CNN host Dana Bash outlined the many criticisms and worries contained in the House budget bill, including Joni Ernst’s callous “we all die anyway” statement, Vought responded by calling criticisms “Astroturf.”
Astroturf is a synthetic surface used in baseball and football stadiums. The idiot doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. It’s astroturfing, fuckwit. A common tactic used by Republicans.
BASH: The other reason why we’re seeing some pushback is because of the Medicaid cuts that were passed by the House and that are going to go into the Senate.
There was a town hall, which I’m sure you saw, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst was asked, it was pretty raucous, about the Medicaid cuts, and she responded by saying, people were saying that people are going to die, and she said, we’re all going to die. But the question that she was getting were, from constituents, were concerns about Medicaid, food stamps and other government support programs leading to people dying and premature deaths.
What do you say to those concerns?
VOUGHT: I think they’re totally ridiculous. This is astroturf. This bill will preserve and protect the programs, the social safety net, but it will make it much more common sense.
Look, one out of every five or six dollars in Medicaid is improper.
