The One Big Beautiful Bill triggers automatic $500B Medicare cuts under PAYGO, impacting seniors' healthcare access starting ...

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Medicare recipients overwhelmingly voted red in 2024. Now, Republicans just cut their Medicare, automatically, as a result of the BBB.

Thanks to the fact that they didn't put a PAYGO waiver in their MAGA Murder Bill, cuts could kick in automatically.

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Medicare provides health insurance for about 68 million older adults and people with disabilities By Jessica Hall Last Updated: May 21, 2025, 4:22 p.m. ET First Published: May 21, 2025, 2:18 p.m. ET ...

Under current PAYGO (Pay-As-You-Go) budget rules, this would automatically trigger spending cuts across various federal programs-including a 4 percent cut to Medicare funding starting in 2026.

To make matters worse, because the $2.3 trillion deficit increase averages out to $230 billion a year, the cuts to Medicare would still leave $185 billion to be sequestered in fiscal year 2026 ...

2. There will be cuts to Medicare, too Trump promised not to touch Medicare. For an estimated 5 million recipients in Florida, that sounds appealing.

Enacting this bill would increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion over a 10-year period, it estimated May 20. Under law, Medicare spending would be reduced by a maximum of 4%, or $490 billion.

The CBO said the GOP’s megabill would lead to $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Two days later, 215 House Republicans voted for it anyway.