Trump Sparks Outrage by Claiming Federal Government Can't Fund Daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, Saying War Comes First

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: IBT

Published 02 April 2026, 9:22 AM BST


US President Donald Trump has sparked criticism after saying the federal government cannot fund daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, claiming the United States must focus on military protection. Speaking at an Easter Lunch reception at the White House on Wednesday, the president told guests that social programmes should be managed by individual states rather than the federal government.

He said that states would need to raise their own taxes to cover such programmes, adding that the federal government's priority must be national defence.

Federal Funding Should Be Managed by States, Says Trump

Trump's remarks followed a discussion with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, during which the president said, 'Don't send any money for daycare because the United States can't take care of daycare.'

He continued, 'We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They'll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country. But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them,' Trump added.

Read more: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-sparks-outrage-claiming-federal-government-cant-fund-daycare-medicare-medicaid-saying-1789853

[travelingthrulife]

1. Pure evil.

Start a war so you can take away public services. I don't want my tax money going to wars or into Republican pockets.

[vapor2]

43. He didn't need a war to remove millions from the ACA

but now his pea brain can sorta justify taking more from us. Just fuck this sadistic monster

[ananda]

2. "outrage" is rightwing filth talk. Real life:

millions of sicknesses and deaths.

[UpInArms]

3. The cruelty is a feature

not a bug

[mountain grammy]

4. File this under "America is stupid"

of course it is.. look who's president!

[Pluvious]

34. To have first elected this creep might have been a blunder...

To REELECT the Abomination takes pure stupidity

Why must America always be the stupid country ?!!

[Deuxcents]

5. Daycare, Medicare, Medicaid are scams but what are unprovoked military actions against sovereign nations?

What scam was he pulling on us saying he wasn’t going to have wars..he’s a peace candidate. He said he wasn’t going to touch Medicaid and Medicare..what scam is that called. His whole presidency is a scam as he’s derelict of his duties as president to the people. Ballrooms and arches and defacing or currency and other scams are taking up too much of his time and attention to his duties. He’s the biggest scam ever we have faced

[CousinIT]

6. And Medicare and Medicaid are "little things"?

MILLIONS WOULD DIE WITHOUT THEM.

THAT. IS. NOT. A. "LITTLE THING".

EXCEPT TO A SOCIOPATH.

[Hey Joe]

18. Anything that doesn't enrich that fat demented

Bastard is a scam in whatever confused maelstrom of incoherent nonsense passes for his mind .

[patphil]

7. All these little scams? War comes first?

The republicans have given the Democrats the best campaign slogans they could ever have.
I want to see Trump's face with the slogan,"War comes first" on billboards all across the nation.
I want to see prime time commercials with his actual words. And, with a further statement that the republicans in Congress never authorized his war, but provided the money for it; money that came from daycare, medicare, and medicaid.
The Iran war is not a little scam. It's a very, very big scam.
The people have to realize that the so-called antiwar president is really the pro-war president.

[johnnyfins]

8. But we can afford to spend 100 million for

his golf weekends?

[Ray Bruns]

9. You betcha!

[Ray Bruns]

10. There's always money for war.

One day(hopefully), Americans will wake up.

[johnnyfins]

11. He would know about scams.

I don't even care anymore about him being held accountable. His arteries are doing that as I type this.

I want demons like Vought, and Miller and the rest to see prison time. Fucking degenerates.

[Playingmantis]

12. Well how about giving more tax breaks to the ultra rich?

That always works, doesnt it?

[NH Ethylene]

13. Rubbing salt in the wounds

All those MAGAS that are rethinking their support, thanks to Trump's illegal war, are now being told they (and we!) have to suffer pain to support that war.

And he has no clue why his poll numbers keep dropping.

[SamuelAdams]

14. Red states would be hurt the worst by this.

Some swing states have older populations which would require heavier expenditures for health programs. He has gone from trying to hurt blue states to hurting his own supporters.

[Miguelito Loveless]

15. They don't really seem to care in the long run

I have talked to supporters of the Child Rapist who are now getting hurt by this and it does not shake their support for this horror. They just blame Democrats, refusing to accept the fact their party controls all the levers of power. They cannot face the fact that they chose their own destruction, and will defend their vote for a lying, fascist, sexual predator with their (soon to be) dying breath.

[Qutzupalotl]

16. He never made it through the preamble...

…or watched Schoolhouse Rock. The federal government is supposed to do both:

“…provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare…”

[jls4561]

17. What's good for the goose....

There should be no money to pay for Fat Donnie’s drug cocktail that hypes him up before every public appearance.

Donnie should have to sit in his soiled diaper until a family member comes to change him. Melania’s in New York and can’t hear you? Too bad.

And because supplemental nutrition funds are needed for the war effort, all meals at the White House shall cost under $3.00.
Piece of chicken, piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing.

And while we’re at it, let’s put the next polluting, temperature raising data center right next to Javanka’s kids school.

[orangecrush]

19. Pure facism

[SWBTATTReg]

20. one does get tired of telling him to shut the F*** up, after each one of his stupid statements.

[Mblaze]

21. Kamala Harris's plan funded all of that

But didn't have a plan to attack Iran. Choices - choices.

[Bayard]

22. Back to threatening Medicare and Medicaid again

Not Social Security? He's slipping. This from the guy who gets free healthcare, and making millions from his office.

Notice he said, "wars," not war. They're all illegal and unapproved by Congress. A Dem president would have been impeached already. But then, a Dem prez would not be a first class moron.

The blood clot cannot come soon enough.

[Picaro]

23. Looks like libertarianism

This is where all the Randites (adherents of Ayn Rand) think we should be.

In the libertarian canon, the government only deals with the common defense and foreign relations.

The inhabitants of our land are all completely on their own.

What a delightful vision. If you’re not rich you’re pretty well fucked. That’s the crux of the libertarian model.

[2na fisherman]

28. Tax The Rich

The Libertarian model is often touted by The Right who denounce any government support for the working class. The myth of not taxing the wealthy because it would harm the "job creators" is wearing thin. Many of the most obscenely rich have most of their wealth derived from interest on investments-- not running companies and providing good-paying jobs. And much of that wealth is hidden in offshore tax-haven accounts passed through dummy corporations. The rich would have us believe that they are entitled to rule over the masses and keep them at an economic disadvantage so they lose the ability to effectively question their authority and their oligarchic rule is preserved. This dog-eat-dog world view is short-sighted because sooner or later the masses will rise up against them. They are aware of this and that is why many of them support authoritarian rule and the control of technologies used to spy on and subjugate all who would dare to oppose them. Libertarianism has become the the social structure on which a technofascist leviathan is built.

[Picaro]

35. Spot on

[Hope22]

24. We are being robbed every second of every day! Nt

[Buddyzbuddy]

25. Do you think Republicans will continue to bend the knee to the Felon

when they're no longer in office?

[Historic NY]

26. Only his war....

[maxsolomon]

27. Oh noez, criticism has been sparked!

Pass the smelling salts.

[kerouac2]

29. Exactly what he ran on, promises made, promises kept

FAFO

[City Lights]

30. So we are at war then?

His flock continues to bleat that we're not at war.

This evil clown show doesn't know whether it's coming or going.

[NHvet]

31. Says the man that never changed a daiper

other then his own. He has never bathed, fed or cared for any of his spawn other than hire nannies, cookies, and servants to do the things that were and are beneath him.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

32. We really waiting until May for another No Kings rally ?

Seriously?

[BumRushDaShow]

33. There are a number of primaries and special elections coming up over the next couple of months

So need to make sure our (D) candidates are all set.

[valleyrogue]

36. He is talking out of his ass, as usual.

This would provoke lawsuits galore.

He needs to shut up.

[ShazzieB]

39. He's a blithering idiot.

He has never been one to think through the ramifications of his actions, and now he's completely lost the capacity to do so. He can't hold more than one thought in his head at a time, much less make the complex decisions with far-reaching ramifications.that are required of a potus. He's never been fully capable of carrying out the duties of his office, and he's now reached a point where he doesn't have enough functioning brain cells left to even try.

[valleyrogue]

49. Given how he was short of breath in that speech,

I have come to the conclusion he has congestive heart failure.

[ShazzieB]

53. I've thought for a while that he probably has chf.

The first clue was the cankles. That kind of edema in the lower extremities is a classic sign of chf.

I didn't see the speech, but if he was short of breath, that would tie right in.

[valleyrogue]

54. It really jumped out at me.

He hasn't done that before that was to the point of it being noticeable. Last night, it was almost every sentence he was trying to catch his breath.

This is probably what he and his connections are covering up. That is very serious stuff.

Two of my dogs had it and they eventually died from heart failure. So far it seems Trump hasn't been on oxygen, but who knows if that is in store eventually?

[dflprincess]

37. We've been paying into Medicare all working lives

And are still paying another $203 into it every month. If there's no money for it, are they going to put that money back into my Social Security check?

[BidenRocks]

38. America "cannot..."

There is nothing America can NOT do given proper leadership.

We immediately need to impeach this thief and find someone competent. It is not anyone is his circle!

Come Jan 1, maga must be outlawed as the NAZI party was in Germany.
We have seen their agenda and it is not truth, justice and the American way!

Their numbers should be so low we can "Drown them in a bathtub!".

Chump thinks he has enough ICE gestapo to take over America.
Not when we fight back!

He does NOT represent us!

[pat_k]

40. War, shoveling billions more into pockets of billionaires, billions propping up the magnificent 10, and ...

... billions corruptly lining his own pockets and the pockets of regime minions.

There are only so many billions to go around you know!!

Why the hell spend a penny of public money on public services?

Why waste a dime on serving the well-being, health, and safety of the American people when their co-conspirators in Congress are so fucking accommodating in facilitating the personal gain of the few, the evil, the vile ?

[pwb]

41. Congress is suppose to be our backstop to protect the people.

Republicans forget the people's concerns and fall in like baby ducks,
following their Party village idiot.

[Beartracks]

42. Is America great yet?

Trump talks of America's defense while simultaneously dismantling America at home and abroad to satisfy the wishlist of Putin's Russia. Putin proves you CAN invade, attack, and weaken a superpower country without putting "boots on the ground."

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[dalton99a]

44. Kick

[calimary]

45. "... all these little scams"???

How about ALL YOUR BIG SCAMS, Donald???

One of my proudest achievements is a two-fer: two times I voted for somebody else for president INSTEAD OF him. I’ve certainly made plenty of mistakes along the way, but THOSE two aren’t among them.

Just makes me wonder what he’s gonna try to do to save himself? He’s gonna run out of people to fire and people to blame. Cuz that’s where he is, and all his got, at this point.

[AKwannabe]

46. Eat shit

And …
Freaking imbecile!

[usonian]

47. Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-dont-want-to-be-the-policemen-of-the-world/

President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.

Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.

Reason?

[SomedayKindaLove]

48. My how things change

Anyone remember when Trump the 2024 candidate, when asked about childcare care, basically said not to worry about it, that oil will pay for it?

I guess that didn’t work out.

[LisaL]

50. Kind of the opposite of what he was promising

during the election. His voters must be so happy.

[red dog 1]

51. He's disgusting!

(Is he dead yet?)

[thought crime]

52. He's approaching some kind of "Martial Law Mentality"

"Our purpose" is greater than the Mere Common Good. We have an ego to save.

[ThoughtCriminal]

55. Last week, Rubio was critisizing Iran for spending on military instead of people

https://truthout.org/articles/rubio-ironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-the-military/

Secretary of State Marco Rubio lectured Iran in interviews this week, saying that the country should be spending money on supporting its people rather than on weapons and militaristic causes — an ironic statement coming from an administration that has gutted the U.S.’s social safety net while requesting a record-shattering Pentagon budget.

“Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran,” said Rubio, speaking of the administration’s hopes for regime change in their war in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday. “You’d have a much different country. So we are always hopeful that that would exist over there.”