The president has said his administration “won’t touch” entitlement programs. Past efforts to do so have backfired on Trump and other politicians.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew said the President “understood” his concerns, which are also shared by a number of other Republicans.

Budget chicanery begets more budget chicanery. About this time in 2010, Democrats were trying every procedural and accounting trick they could conjure to push ObamaCare through a restive Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson powered a budget resolution floor vote through, overcoming threats of a revolt from swing-district Republicans.

“Medicare, Medicaid: None of that stuff is going to be touched,” he added. “We don’t have to.” Johnson has also dismissed the idea that the GOP’s budget will gut benefits for low-income people. Medicaid, he said recently, “has never been on t ...

Friends Julie Roginsky, a Democrat, and Mike DuHaime, a Republican, talk politics: Until DOGE starts hurting communities, people don't care.