Democrats proved on Thursday during a press conference about the protection of Medicaid that Elon Musk ‘S Department of Government Efficiency has become an inevitable policy discussion under President Donald Trump’s second term.
Prior to the winter meeting of the National Governors Association Washington, DCThis week, Democratic and Republican Governors received within their respective parties to strategize and discuss the policy. Democratic governors held a press conference on Tuesday, complaining the alarm about the threat of Trump for Medicaid and signaling a democratic messaging priority.
“This is a situation of life and death for so many of our citizens in all our states. I am more concerned about Doge,” said Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Conn. “I think the Ministry of Government efficiency is leaking its way to HHS and any other place.”
Doge Headlines Trump’s first month back in the White House when Democrats protested every week and his executive orders called a “constitutional crisis”. When asked by Fox News Digital if there is a consensus among Democratic Governors that it is a “constitutional crisis”, Lamont said: “It is a budgetary crisis.”
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Lamont said it is impossible to plan for unpredictable and last-minute cuts on the budget, and added that cutting medicaid $ 2 billion would cost.
“It is not a doge. It should be called Dodge, a way to just push the costs to our people,” Lamont said.
The Governor of Connecticut said that he supports fraud in the federal government, but he said that if Doge expects states to take up the costs for things like Medicare or Medicid, then to jeopardize people.
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“Doge is pretty cruel. Let’s be blunt about that,” Gov. Josh Green, D-Hawaii, ready. “These are people in our states who have worked a long career, very devoted employees, and they are kicked out of their lives.”
Green said that he launched an initiative in Hawaii yesterday to hire employees who have been fired by the federal government.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green speaks during the summer meeting of the National Governors Association, Thursday 11 July 2024 in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
“We hope to bring good people into the fold and help them heal them through this process, and we will hire them. But at the end of the day, if there are deep cuts in budgets, we will all have suffered and trouble to Do that.
Fox News Digital asked the governors if they had agreed a message strategy to combat doge.
“It’s just not American. To be honest, I don’t know how they have devised the plan to reduce trillions of dollars to pay for tax benefits. Most Americans will really be upset if they lose fundamental services. My message is, we can be to us Taking care of land and not just playing for bombastic news moments, “said Graham.
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Government Michelle Lujan Grisham, DN.M., said that governors are working to make the government more efficient every day.
“I think another uniform message is that we all want an efficient, effective government,” said Grisham. “I predict that it will spend more on itself than it actually saves or finds cost savings or fraud. Do you know that fraud finds in health care and a number of other things? Governors do it! And then we work together with the federal government to do that We stamp that from all over the country.
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The Democratic governors insisted on more Republicans to compete against Trump’s agenda. In the meantime, Grisham said that democratic governors will continue to keep them responsible.
“They don’t tell us the truth. They use this effort to cover the bags of one or a few Americans and companies, and they have not found any significant waste or fraud. They must continue to correct, or at least we I will keep them responsible and correct those figures.
