Steve Bannon: “We’re going to block grant” Medicaid or have “stringent work requirements”
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From the February 26, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON: I think this is one of the things President Trump is going to talk about. It's not just DOGE. As we've said for so long, DOGE has to be put into more of a formal process. Right, a - more of a formal process like OMB and like the appropriations process to actually make sure that the cuts that are found on the waste, fraud, and abuse stick.
Then it's having Elon and this team working with the cabinet officials, which is the harder part. Which is actually programmatically in billets, billets stand for where, you know, a slot for a body. It's not just getting rid of a person, you're taking away the billet. We don't need this anymore and you do it programmatically.
That is where the big and significant cuts are gonna come. That's like Medicaid. We're going to have federalism. We're going to block grant it back to the states, or we're going to require, you know, stringent work requirements or we're going to say that no more illegal aliens on Medicaid.
This is all part of the cutting to try to get under $1 trillion of deficit because our financial model right now as a country is unsustainable.