Any initiative to cut spending on Social Security and Medicare would be a break from his 2016 campaign pledge to protect funding for those programs.
Trump made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, whereof economic resurgence at the elite gathering of wealthy investors, business titans and academics.
In the interview, the president said entitlement reform could happen at the „right“ moment and appeared to credit the strength of the US economy for providing momentum to shrink spending on two of the nation’s biggest government programs. „At the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that’s actually the easiest of all things, if you look,“ he told CNBC’s Joe Kernen. „Well, we’re going – we’re going look. We also have – assets that we’ve never had. I mean we’ve never had growth like this.“
The CNBC interview, however, provided few details and little clarity on what shape entitlement reforms could take. Though it’s proved resilient, the US economyTrump, though, recently showed disdain for attempts to rein in the swelling federal deficit, telling donors at a Florida fundraiser, „Who the hell cares about the budget? We’re going to have a country.“
Any initiative to cut spending on Social Security and Medicare would mark a break from his 2016 campaign pledge to protect funding for those programs. In hisEntitlements represent a substantial chunk of government spending,
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