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On the recordSeptember 17, 2020
the election is only weeks away. Voting has already begun in some places. I know that folks at home in Oregon, where some of our communities are literally reduced to ashes, are already thinking about how they are going to vote. They will have a lot on their minds when they fill out their ballots, obviously, and I hope all Americans will fill out their ballots early as a raging pandemic and catastrophic fires in Oregon and across the West have taken a huge toll on our communities. What I want to do this morning--and I am going to use public records to sound an alarm--is talk about another issue that isn't getting nearly the attention it deserves--not even close. A Medicare crisis is headed our way and fast. Whoever wins the next Presidential election will be in charge during the biggest crisis Medicare has ever faced. Based on these public records, I want to warn the public-- particularly seniors--about something I believe they already know: You cannot trust Donald Trump to protect Medicare, so you have to protect Medicare from Donald Trump. Donald Trump has proposed extreme budget cuts to Medicare for 3 straight years. In 2018, he proposed cutting $500 billion, and in 2019, more than $800 billion. In 2020, Donald Trump proposed cutting $450 billion from Medicare. The Democrats blocked him from making those cuts, but in another Presidential term, he could undermine Medicare on his own. Here is how the situation comes to be.…
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon
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Sep 17, 2020

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