Mick Mulvaney

Donald Trump campaigned on the claim that he would “Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it.” Who could possibly have predicted that this would turn out to be a lie, besides everyone who observed Trump’s pathological lying and the cut-hungry Republicans who surrounded him? Now we’re getting details on Trump’s budget, and … surprise! It would cut Medicaid by $600 billion over 10 years on top of Trumpcare’s more than $800 billion in Medicaid cuts. Also,

… the new budget would make cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, which covered over 10 million recipients as of December 2015. It would save about $72 billion through changes to disability programs over the next ten years. Asked about the discrepancy, Mulvaney suggested that the president intended his promises to apply only to retirement benefits. "If you ask 999 people out of a thousand, they'd tell you Social Security disability is not part of Social Security," Mulvaney said.

That’s budget director Mick Mulvaney, of coal miners' kids need bombs, not Sesame Street and feeding children and the elderly is not "showing any results" fame. Add this 999 out of a thousand claim to Mulvaney’s greatest hits, because millions of Americans are on disability, so apparently he thinks that most people who have gone through the process of applying to Social Security for disability don't realize what program they’re part of.

And by the way, the states with the highest percentage of working-age people on disability are heavily Trump-voting states, so he’s planning to screw his own voters here.