Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg broke down President Donald Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill Monday, attacking its cuts to Medicaid and paring back of weather services in the wake of deadly flooding in Texas.
“Remember the reason that they set up all these cuts to Medicaid is they needed to find a way to pay for these tax cuts for billionaires,” Buttigieg told internet personality Philip DeFranco on his show.
Trump’s 900-page bill was signed into law last week, making major cuts that included food assistance and health care. Buttigieg took a hard stance against the bill, saying it was not “about waste, fraud and abuse,” but that the cuts were signed to offset the government’s lost revenue from granting billionaires tax breaks.
“The thing they chose to spend less on is health care,” Buttigieg said. “The only way that math works, even the way they compute it, is if a whole bunch of people lose their coverage and the simple fact is there just aren’t nearly that number of people who are on it who don’t deserve to be on it, who aren’t eligible.”
Buttigieg tore into the bill’s work requirements for Medicaid, noting a similar policy in Arkansas did not increase employment, but instead decreased the number of people getting basic health care like checkups, leading them to the emergency room for more extreme cases.
