Kevin Hassett says if Senate finds Medicare abuse, then "we would look at it" in Trump bill

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Source: CBS News

June 8, 2025 / 4:22 PM EDT


White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday the Trump administration is not targeting Medicare in its sweeping budget proposal, but signaled the administration would be open to changes if senators uncover fraud or abuse as they look at the bill.

"If somebody finds waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, then of course we would look at it," Hassett said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "But there have been a lot of false stories about Medicare being on the table, and it's totally not on the table."

Senate Republicans this week are working on the House-passed budget bill, dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill" by President Trump, which includes deep tax cuts, border security measures, and changes to Medicaid and food assistance programs. Hassett on Sunday pushed back against the idea that Republicans are targeting Medicare for cuts. "That story that got out last week was covered as our intent to go after Medicare," Hassett said bluntly. "And it was just a big fake news story."

Asked whether the administration would revisit the Medicare provision if the Senate identifies abuse, Hassett said they would. "I've seen a massive amount of waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, and I've not been briefed on Medicare waste, fraud and abuse. But if they find something then, of course, we would look at it," he said.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-hassett-medicare-trump-big-beautiful-bill-face-the-nation/

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They have yet to find any "waste, fraud, and abuse" except by that done by Republicans like Rick Scott.

[Captain Zero]

1. Don't put Rick Scott on the sub committee

For That. He got rich rich using his Florida business to defraud Medicare. Maybe they should put a tax surcharge on all his wealth to recoup all the losses he created in the system.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Like the TSF and the WH would look for fraud, such as Rick Scott.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott went out of his way, quite literally, on Thursday to attend former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan and remind Americans that he once ran a healthcare company that was slapped with the largest Medicare fraud fine in U.S. history.

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In 2014, the whistleblower who helped the federal government investigate Columbia/HCA described a company with two sets of books and said he had “no doubt in my mind that Rick Scott was the leader of a criminal enterprise.” “The fraud at Rick Scott’s company hurt seniors, it hurt taxpayers, it hurt everyone,’‘ John Schilling, a former HCA accountant who worked with the FBI in 1996 through 2003, said at a 2014 press conference. “Fraud was in the DNA of Rick Scott’s company from the very beginning and he was the father.”

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article288431251.html#storylink=cpy

[Walleye]

3. No asshole, if you find fraud, you prosecute it. It's a crime.

You don’t impose collective punishment on the whole class. And extending benefits to black and brown people is not abuse or waste.

[Deminpenn]

4. He needs only ask Rick Scott

who is an expert on how to do medicare fraud.

[travelingthrulife]

5. The grinning sociopath.

He certainly has the look of a child molester.